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Ubuntu Server download and VMware import

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- [Instructor] Now seems like a good time to add a Ubuntu server to our GNS3 topology. If I do that, I'm gonna remove this Ubuntu Docker container, and NAT cloud from my GNS3 topology. Now, again, if you have problems where the throughput through your Cisco devices is very slow, consider connecting your switch directly to the NAT cloud rather than going through a Cisco device. But in this topology, what I'm gonna do now is go to Ubuntu.com and download an Ubuntu server, LTS/ISO image. Now, in Ubuntu, we have either LTS or long-term support, or the latest images. The long-term support version of Ubuntu server is typically what you're gonna find in the real world. As the name implies, a long-term support. So this image is supported till April 2021. If you wanna try the latest and greatest version of Ubuntu server, then download this version. This version only provides nine months of security and maintenance updates. In this example, I'm gonna download Ubuntu 16.04 LTS because that's…

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