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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Srikanth Reddy wrote: > > > >> > >> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 10:11 PM, Ian Smith <[email protected] > >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> > >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > >> > >> > >> > >> 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > [email protected]" > -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 "Oh, the cruft." _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ipfw To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
