>    Howdy all, is there a way for me to LISTEN to a TCP port without out
>binding to that port?  IE: can I listen to another applications TCP
>processes and log the data that it is sending and receiving??

>    Keith

>> The .PeekData method.

>Nope.  The question was about listening to a port of ANOTHER app.  The
>PeekData method is only for a control WITHIN the same app (or perhaps
>DDE-linked apps which I've never figured out).  I, too, would like to
>monitor different applications' ports, and have not yet found a way.  Any
>ideas?

>Thanks!

> There's probably no easy way to do it with the OCXs we're given.  I'll
wonder
> if we don't just have to watch all the traffic on the packet, and sort it
out
> somehow.

>> There's probably no easy way to do it with the OCXs we're given.  I'll
>wonder
>> if we don't just have to watch all the traffic on the packet, and sort it
>out
>> somehow.

>Jason:

>I've come to the drastic conclusion that I should write code down at the
>MSComm control level, do a (simple?) PPP and IP stack and control all
>communications with my ISP at the modem level.  This would allow me to
>observe and set every byte at layer one.  Since there is no way to get at
>the IP layer (3?) using the Winsock control, I can't do SNMP and similar
>xactions (maybe the API has something, I dunno).

>Pretty ambitious - anyone with any similar aspirations, or should I just
>take a powder?

>Thanks,
>Frank