Hello Angus,

I forgot to tell that if you need to stats specific ports or IP then
you'll need to use WinPcap packet capture (finding delphi wrapper is
easy).

Delphi cannot be used to create dynamic drivers so you'll not be able to create
some .sys that would load/unload easy.

Regards.

ARMSL> I always though that proper monitoring of TCP/IP traffic required a 
ARMSL> device driver, but BMExtreme seems to manage it through the standard 
ARMSL> winsock API:

ARMSL> http://www.lp23.com/bmextreme/

ARMSL> It's able to list IP addresses visited, and distinguish internal and 
ARMSL> external traffic on a adaptor, on most OSs (I'm using XP SP2).  A quick 
ARMSL> look at it's dependencies suggests only WSAIotl is used, plus open 
ARMSL> socket, etc.  

ARMSL> So is there a way to monitor traffic on an adaptor using winsock?  It 
ARMSL> would make a very useful ICS component, allowing bandwidth monitoring 
ARMSL> in particular which is important to many with capped ADSL connections.  
ARMSL> I currently use IP Helper, but this only sees total traffic through an 
ARMSL> adaptor, and I need to exclude local stuff.  

ARMSL> Angus


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