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Lokinet is an anonymous, decentralized and IP based overlay network for the internet.
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Wintun for windows #710

Closed rjmalagon closed 1 year ago

rjmalagon commented 4 years ago

This is more an enhancement suggestion than a bug squash request. The OpenVpn tun driver for windows feels like somewhat dirty. The loki-network node clash with my custom CJDNS node OpenVpn tun interface for Windows. I don't feel that this a bug in loki-network tun code, but I feel sorry that I can't code Wintun tun code for loki-nework (and for CJDNS too). Wintun is much a beta code and fast evolving but feels right. https://www.wintun.net/

WARNING WARNING - onion routing fan cheers below - I am a longtime TOR and I2P user and now I am a happy loki-network tester and (small) bandwidth contributor, thanks to the developers for this very interesting project.

despair86 commented 4 years ago

o hi

i'm the lokinet guy working on Windows NT

yes I've been looking into using wintun(4) lately, but isn't wireguard itself still somewhat unstable? i'd imagine this would too.

in any case, a big switch isn't in the cards yet until i can patch in some NDIS 5.x bits into it (yes Loki has an EV cert for 64-bit driver stuff, and Windows 2000-Windows 7 are Tier III platforms that i'd like to support)

quick platform support rundown: 

tier i - linux, latest macOS, iphone os
tier ii - slightly older macOS, freebsd, netbsd (openbsd), solaris 2.11, windows 8.1, windows 10, andriod
tier iii - all older windows nt (min: 5.0), any random unix not otherwise specified

tambien me puedes hablar en castellano 😄

rjmalagon commented 4 years ago

Hi, nice to read you. Jason A. Donenfeld is such a perfectionist, he sees unstable code where I see cleaner code than the alternatives (or my love/hate relationship with CJDNS). I think is a good idea to check on wintun later when the code is near a freeze stage.

Kudos, winnt device driver programmer is a serious thing.

For fun read, some openvpn experiments with wintun are in place https://patchwork.openvpn.net/patch/772/

majestrate commented 4 years ago

i think that wintun is a good idea i've heard the perf is better vs tun/tap driver