OP here, since you are curious, this is why I decided to post this: as someone else has remarked above, there is a fantastic Stanford free networking course in Lagunita. It is the real thing, full force undiluted highbrow not dumbed down, unlike so many other moocs. Except, frustratingly, unlike the real Stanford course, the challenging labs are missing, so people were missing that necessary balance between theory and practice. But now Stanford has made said labs publicly available, this term. Given that this is AFAIK the best free networking course out there, I thought HN readership might be interested to know that now it's even better (and, as it happens, it was).
Great. Thanks for the explanation. I'm not from the US so please forgive my ignorance as to CS 144's significance. That's all I was really asking - when I asked that question there was no accompanying commentary here.
No problem. Your remark made me realize that maybe I should have worked harder on the title. I am not from the US either, English is not my first language, but on top of having most of the best universities they also seem to be making great university courses available for free much more than anybody else.
