Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to create a personal, cost-free SOCKS5 anonymous proxy with support for UDP ASSOCIATE (as specified in RFC1928) in Oracle Cloud. I documented these steps for myself while setting up the SOCKS5 proxy for the purpose of experimenting with forwarding WireGuard handshake packets over SOCKS5. However, I later decided to share this information… Read More »
One of our customers has recently reported that WinpkFilter installation has failed with error code 0x800700b7. This was the first report mentioning such error code, and we have spent some time to research the issue at a customer side. Such behavior seems to be worth mentioning in a dedicated post. 0x800700b7 error code can be decoded as ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS.… Read More »
Why do I need to bridge or a couple of real life cases when you may need an alternative to built-in Windows network bridge? Over ten years have passed since I have published the first version of Ethernet Bridge. The main purpose of this simple tool, inspired by Steve Gibson from Gibson Research Corporation, was supporting OpenVPN in… Read More »
There is a very popular and important question about Windows Packet Filter: “Can I handle Gigabit traffic in WinpkFilter user-mode application without noticeable performance degradation?”. I was asked rather frequently and usually, my answer starts with “that depends…” followed up by various performance related considerations and ends with a sentence “if you need maximum possible performance then consider… Read More »
If you’ve never written a driver for Windows before, your first question is likely to be: Where do I start? While building drivers for the modern Windows operating systems is widely covered by numerous tutorials on the Internet, it might be challenging to find the information and necessary tools for the legacy operating systems. This tutorial covers all steps… Read More »