> I use wingate to connect my home network to the internet, so all I'd
> really need to do is monitor what is going in and out of the comm  port
> that my modem uses, or monitor the data coming and going from the NIC.

> I realize that 99.9% of the traffic would be meaningless, but if I could
> see it I think I could write a filter to make it work.

> my problem is that the msComm control has to open a port to do anything
> with it, and it's obviously already open.

> any suggestions to get me pointed in the right direction so I can
> research / figure out the rest?

> thank you for ANY pointers in advance.

> Have you thought about looking thru the WinGate log files?

> --

> Julian Milano

> > I'd like to write an app to monitor my kids' chat sessions.  I'm not
> > really interested in making any money, but if it ends up being useful I
> > can see it being free-ware.

> > I use wingate to connect my home network to the internet, so all I'd
> > really need to do is monitor what is going in and out of the comm  port
> > that my modem uses, or monitor the data coming and going from the NIC.

> > I realize that 99.9% of the traffic would be meaningless, but if I could
> > see it I think I could write a filter to make it work.

> > my problem is that the msComm control has to open a port to do anything
> > with it, and it's obviously already open.

> > any suggestions to get me pointed in the right direction so I can
> > research / figure out the rest?

> > thank you for ANY pointers in advance.