Have you looked at Snort - http://www.snort.org that will allow you to look for patterns in the application layer payload - John On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 12:22, Sandy C wrote: > I'd like to be able to examine the network data, and > if the data (not the header info) matches certain > criteria, I want to perform certain actions. Its not > clear to me what those actions might be yet. > > S C > > --- "John A. Sullivan III" > <john.sullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 00:45, Sandy C wrote: > > > I would like to be able to be able to examine > > the > > > data portion of a network packet after matching > > it. > > > > .. > > > What is the best way to go about this? Should I > > be > > > thinking of writing a target extension? > > <snip> > > It depends on what you want to do. What do you want > > to do with the > > information? > > -- > > John A. Sullivan III > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html -- John A. Sullivan III Chief Technology Officer Nexus Management +1 207-985-7880 john.sullivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx