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.
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I've also watched that, I have some ATM gear, including a Cisco 3600 with an 155 Mbit/s ATM card in my attic. And was thinking I'd setup some really old ATM network. might get an ATM card to some of my Juniper routers just for fun. V.35 and Frame Relay over an E3 circuit would be fun.
I'd start without books, iirc getting serial up is not that hard, more fun doing it the "hard way"