At 11:32 PM 17-12-01 +0100, you wrote:

>Hi and sorry for the off-topic post, but I am sure that some of the people
>on this list have used already something like what I need.
>
>Where I work, we have these very nice hardware-network sniffers.
>Does anyone know of any similar software, which can sniff network-traffic on
>a distinct port (presumably 3050) to let me know how much bandwidth my apps
>need in different configurations?
>It should be freeware and should be able to report at least packet size,
>packet count and roundtrips-count.

Nick,
the packetsniffer pack at http://delphi-jedi.org/apilibrary might do the trick for you. I haven't used it myself so it's a bit of guesswork here.

regards,
Helen