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- You will basically connect through a VPN network to get access to the NMaaS domain.
- You will provide with an ssh public key that will be installed on the testbed to allow you ssh access.
- You will connect to the Booked service to make your reservation
- Your ssh public key will be automatically installed and removed at the precise timeslot on the "Researchers bastion" and the reserved devices.
- You should now be able to ssh to the "Researchers bastion" and from there jump to the reserved resource.
- You can happily code, compile and test your p4 code on top of a powerful Tofino device.
Following subsections explain more in detail the
VPN Access
So once you are granted administratively access to the testbed, a vpn configuration file is provided to you. The vpn is based on openvpn and any Operating service can be used to connect to it. In particular if you are working from a linux system you can use the following command to connect to it and you should get some output similar to the one you can see below
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