Mark Bailey wrote: > does anyone know if it is possible (and if > so how or is there a utility to do it) to > interrogate a stream of data going out over my modem. Simplest way? Tee your cable and run the TD line to RD on another port. Search for "serial" on freshmeat; I'm sure there's software to do that. -- If at first you don't succeed, try a shorter bungee.