Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 22:03:57 +0530 From: Srikanth Reddy <srikanthkumar.net@gmail.com> To: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ipfw+dummynet on Windows 10 Message-ID: <CAMYJkME2K0r3dg5wMQi1nYPcDno7oMBBEM%2BG9-YBAC7mAxPHRw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5836EE92.5060506@gmail.com> References: <mailman.113.1477569602.88772.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <20161029025126.X13445@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <CAMYJkMEf8iMdRzgc-TfWE%2BZ5mxpwiJ7267L0y0227q=C2AdgLA@mail.gmail.com> <5836EE92.5060506@gmail.com>
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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@gmail.com> wrote: > Srikanth Reddy wrote: > >> >> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 10:11 PM, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au >> <mailto:smithi@nimnet.asn.au>> wrote: >> >> freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org> >> >> >> >> =E2=80=8BHello 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 =E2=80=8Bthis part?since we used ipf= w 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 t= o > perform the desired work. This option is going to take some time. Maybe u= p > 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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