Ipfw+dummynet on Windows 10

[markham breitbach]

Hi Srikanth,

Are you thinking of this project?

http://wipfw.sourceforge.net/

-Markham

On 2016-11-24 9:33 AM, Srikanth Reddy 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.
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>> 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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