Ipfw+dummynet on Windows 10

[Odhiambo Washington]

FreeBSD Team actually include ipfw team, BUT as long as you see ipfw
included in a version of FreeBSD, then it's been tested and certified as
"works". That does not mean they also test and ensure it works on Windows
as M$ continues to change/break things :-)

On 24 November 2016 at 19:33, Srikanth Reddy <srikanthkumar.net at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Ernie,
> Thank you very much.
> You are right, I was in the assumption that Freebsd team include Ipfw team.
> Hence wrote the email to this community as I badly need windows 10 support.
>
> It will be a great help if you can provide ipfw developer contact
> information.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Srikanth.
>
> On Thursday, November 24, 2016, Ernie Luzar <luzar722 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Srikanth Reddy wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 10:11 PM, Ian Smith <smithi at nimnet.asn.au
> >> <mailto:smithi at nimnet.asn.au>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     freebsd-ipfw at freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-ipfw at freebsd.org>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ​Hello All,
> >> We couldn't find the right piece of code to change to achieve Windows 10
> >> compatibility of ipfw.
> >> Could any one of you can help us on ​this part?since we used ipfw in one
> >> of my research project its very critical for us to achieve ipfw
> >> compatibility on windows 10 as it was working fine in windows 7 machines
> >> without any issues.we are Ok to pay some money ( if that is not going to
> >> cost so much ) as you need to spend some effort to go though your code
> >> again.
> >>
> >> Buts its our humble request to all of you.
> >>
> >> Thanks & Regards,
> >> Srikanth.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Hello Srikanth.
> >
> > I think you are barking up the wrong tree here. What you need is a person
> > who is experienced in win10 internals not Freebsd. Even though ipfw is
> > maintained by the freebsd ipfw project does not mean freebsd had anything
> > to do with making it able to run on win7. A win programmer took the open
> > source ipfw code and made changes to it so it would run on win7.
> >
> > You need to contact that win7 programmer who did that work and ask him it
> > he is interested in upgrading his work for win10.
> >
> > Some suggestions.
> >
> > 1. Submit a format proposal to the FreeBSD foundation to fund a project
> to
> > perform the desired work. This option is going to take some time. Maybe
> up
> > to a year.
> >
> > 2. Change your focuses from Freebsd to Microsoft. There are win10
> > development forums where you can ask for help and advice. Maybe you can
> > find the support you want there.
> >
> > Good Luck
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