I’m following a channel on YouTube named Serial Port (https://youtube.com/@theserialport) where they are trying to reproduce a 90s dial-up ISP. In my late teens I was a telecoms engineer installing racks and cabling so as mid-40s man this has sparked my interest again. I never got into the commissioning of the telco kit (Marconi, Cisco) so I thought I’d have a play now.

I have bought a Cisco 2501 and plan to network over a V.35 connection to something else (the start of my lab!). Can anyone point me to a kind place to start with learning the Cisco iOS 11 command line and how to configure the interfaces?

I wondered if an old CCNA book from the 90s would be a good start but google tends to point me to books / websites of today. Where can a find a book from the 90s?

Thanks in advance.

  • operator207@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Makes me nostalgic for an old Portmaster 4e that was an old POP for a small (at the time) town. It was in a closet of a hair salon with a bunch of external modems and a couple T1’s (one for the incoming modem lines, one for the backhaul back to HQ). I had reused it for a few years as a serial connector to some network equipment. (telnet into it, then use the modem ports to serial to the gear). I used to setup the 2500 series (I want to say it was the 2505, but not sure anymore) for Business T1 customers. For some reason, we would build a router out of FreeBSD on a desktop and use that for the T1 connection and routing. Not sure why though. It seemed to be pretty random.