Data is transmitted as packets on an ethernet network. The packets present themselves as literally that, packets of hex values from the lower levels of the network stack. If you want to store them as readable data then you have to capture/receive the packets and interpret them yourself, or you must use a tool or library that already knows the protocol that your device is using and interprets & presents the underlying packets in a meaningful way. Obviously if the protocol/packet format is proprietary/very rudimentary (as sounds to be the case in your situation), then the latter option falls away and the only option remaining is to capture the binary packet data and interpret/decode it yourself in your application.
Also: WinPCap is a low-level packet catpure library, exactly the sort of thing you need to do low level packet capture on Windows. It is amongst other things, used by very good network analysis tools like WireShark, (http://www.wireshark.org/, formerly known as Ethereal) with which you capture the actual data traveling past a network adapter as well as analyse it. I've also had a quick look and it looks like the Snoop library suggested by Peter is essentially an wrapper library around the functionality provided by WinPCap, so I submit that you should look again as I think Peter's suggestion is probably after all quite appropriate to your needs. Walter Prins Curtis cloud wrote: > > Thanks Peter but this did not help because these are only sniffer > programs that display statical information regarding my network. Allow > me to be more specific: > ----------------------------------------------------- Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-en/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
