Stanford CS 144 Introduction to Computer Networking
I never learned about computer networks, so I will be taking a self-guided course of Stanford CS 144 Introduction to Computer Networking from Fall 2020. I will be skimming over lecture notes and completing all the labs. A large portion of the course material is on online quizzes and videos that I don't have access to, so I instead will be selectively reading from Kurose and Ross, Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach. I will not be looking at exams.
The labs are run from a Docker container. This repository holds the Dockerfile and setup scripts. The labs are contained in a git submodule pointing to my personal fork of the CS144 lab repository. StanfordCS144-sponge subdirectory is added to the container as a volume, so that changes from a local text editor are propagated into the container.
- GNU Make
- Docker
make image
make container
make
From there, follow the course instructions for building and running the programs. If running into an issue with iptables, try manually running /home/user/cs144/tun.sh restart 144 145. If that doesn't work, try running the same script in the host. See the environment setup docs for more information.
After exiting the container, you can bash back into it with make. Subsequent bash into the container does not require running the setup script. If the container is ever stopped (eg. after reboot), you can restore it with make start-container. Run make clean-container to clean and remove the container.
Run make tags to generate ctags and make cscope to generate a cscope database.