Tried to follow that guide to enable the subsystem for linux but for w/e reason I can't seem to SSH into the devices in Eve. I've got everything going through the mgmt cloud which is on my network and I can get ping responses on the WSL from the devices. When trying to SSH I get: "Unable to negotiate with 192.168.x.x port 22: no matching key exchange method found. Their offer: diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1". Been Googling the issue but haven't seemed to land on anything that works. Was there anything else you did to successfully setup the WSL to SSH into the devices in Eve?

@@gustavomendez6279 Hey Gustavo! Really sorry about the late reply I've been busy with exams lately and not active on KZfaq. Yes! This happens often due to Cisco devices having old ciphers. Edit your SSH file on your WSL terminal by doing: sudo nano /etc/ssh/ssh_config Then uncomment strict host checking and the Ciphers AES128 lines. Then manually add in the line KexAlgorithms +diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 I've uploaded an image of how the file should look after you make the changes: ibb.co/fYY4K1G Hope that helps! -John

@@IPvZero I will def take a crack at this later today! Thanks for your response!

@@gustavomendez6279 Awesome man! Let me know if you have any problems! :) -John

Thank you, Geevarghese! It was inspired by your request! So thanks haha! :) -John

Thanks, Al! Always glad to hear from you, mate! :) -John

No probs, P W! Haha it's actually quite handy! Try it out! :) -John

Hey, Michael! Haha that's great, glad to hear you found it useful! Yup, you can. You'd use a docker linux image and just drag and drop that node into the topology. It comes preinstalled with Ansible and Napalm etc. And you can connect it to the outside world via the management cloud if you want to download other tools like Nornir. It is however a feature of the Pro version! I sometimes use it on mine, but I do like the WSL terminal better personally! Hope that helps! -John

Thanks, Julio! Really glad to have your support, brother. -John

Hey, Slogo. I don't use WSL2 for that very reason. You can't run VMWARE at the same time as WSL2 because of Hyper-V. So I've always just stuck with WSL1 for that very reason :)

@@IPvZero thanks so much.yes I now have wsl1 working and loaded cisco virl images in eve-ng at the same time :) Your ide is therefore running from the linux wsl distro ?Can I please ask what method you use for getting your python ide displaying its gui from within the wsl interface . Cheers again.your videos are really ace

@@slogoheinzy8695 Glad to hear it, Slogo :) For my editing I very often just use Vim within WSL. However, I know people like to use proper IDEs for writing their code. I also have Visual Studio Code installed and you can easily connect it to your WSL. Simply open VS Code after youve downloaded and installed it - and select the "Remote Explorer" option from the left hand side menu. This will show you your WSL instance. Right click the WSL instance you want to connect to and then select "Connect to WSL". This will allow you to develop within VS Code but access your WSL files, your WSL terminal and run the scripts within WSL. I've uploaded a picture to help you in case i'm not being clear: imgur.com/a/SD3FtM7 Hope that helps :) -John

Hey Sandeep! Yeah this can happen due to Cisco devices having old ciphers. The fix I used was the edit my /etc/ssh/ssh_config file. I've included a screenshot of what mine looks like. Check the uncommented Ciphers line: imgur.com/7XYHFXG Try that and let me know if you have any problems :) -John

Hey, Foto! Thanks! Yeah, definitely plan to do more pyATS videos! It's an amazing tool. If you're interested I'd recommend you watch Siming Yuan's pyATS talk from Cisco Live 2020 in Barcelona, you can view on the Cisco website if you create an account. Really good content! Are you just looking for basic Python tutorials? If so, I would recommend this short KZfaq course, I think it's very good as an introduction kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lduBpa1hudG-nJc.html For network automation really focus on learning data structures like Dictionaries, Lists, etc. Learn the basics of Variables, Functions, Loops and Conditional statements. If you get those locked down, along with understanding Data types like the difference between an Integer and a String, you can get a lot done! That free course should provide enough to get you going. The key is to just practice it, allow yourself to get a lot of stuff wrong, be confused, and then slowly get better. It's the same process for us all haha! -John

I can handle python basics. Just finished little ospf automation project with nornir and now I'm thinking how to write tests. I'll try pytest and I think I'll look at others projects on github as always. Pytest is not cisco related and it's more universal.

@@linkflap1342 Ah! That sounds good! Keep practicing man! :)

Hahaha fair play on Windows Store, you got me. I actually use the Mail all the time cause I've got like 5 different emails I use regularly haha

@@IPvZero can you say purple burglar alarm?