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UdemyFree CCNA 200-301: Retro Networking with 10Base5 & 10Base2
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Korshub's take
A hands-on trip back to networking's earliest days
Most CCNA material treats legacy Ethernet as a paragraph in a textbook. This course does the opposite: it puts a genuine 10Base5 and 10Base2 network in front of you, built and filmed rather than described.
You'll watch a bus topology come together with vampire taps, transceivers, and coax cabling — the physical layer decisions that shaped how Ethernet evolved into what runs your network today. Old hardware gets its moment too, with Windows 3.11 and Windows 98 machines joining the network and being remote-controlled via VNC and PCAnywhere, alongside a look at Ethereal, the tool that became Wireshark.
Who it's for
Best suited to CCNA 200-301 candidates and networking students who want to see foundational Ethernet concepts demonstrated physically rather than just read about them.
Key takeaways
- How bus-topology Ethernet was physically wired and tapped
- The role of transceivers and vampire taps in early LANs
- How legacy OS and packet-capture tools connected to these networks
About this course
The 1970s is alive in 2020!
You may have read about it in books. Or seen PowerPoint slides about.
But, have you seen a fully working 10Base5 and 10Base2 retro network? This stuff is from the 1970s, but I created one in 2020!
See practical demonstrations of:
- Bus Network
- Vampire taps
- Transceivers
- 10Base5 cabling
- 10Base2 cabling
- Windows 3.11 connecting to the Internet
- Ethereal (predecessor to Wireshark)
- Windows 98 10Base5 computers
- VNC and PCAnywhere controlling old machines from a Mac
This is a true working example of what networks looked like in the very beginning.
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