Intercepting Incoming Data On A Specific Port

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11 comments, last by dave 18 years, 8 months ago
I have this hand tracking program that watches teh table i play on so i can check my stats. Supposing i found out the protocol and port that my poker software was using, could i then intercept all the data? If so how do i do it in windows? ace
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Ethereal
Im actually interested in coding an interceptor myself.

ace
So you're interested in reinventing the wheel for no good reason?

Ethereal is what you want. It's open source and does what you want exactly. Why spend MONTHS writing a replacement for it to get the same results?
Sorry, what exactly is Ethereal then. I have used a program called this in Linux that shows you in a more visual form the network data. Although what i want to do is write a program that keeps track of this so it can save the pokerhands i play to file.

As far as im aware Ethereal is just a viewer right?

ace
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It lets you view incoming and outgoing packets.

Ethereal
But i would like to do this myself in my own program so i can have an automated program tracking my poker hands.
I've never done anything like this before, however, I think you would probably want to use a library like this WinPCap. I've never used it, but I packet sniffer I used in the past did.

tj963
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