* shane <shane@bratnet.net> [20010328 12:38]:

I need someones help, I saw a product at ISPCON Fall in CA. And the product allowed me to have it operate on my core routers and watch web traffic and allow me to "Inject" a "pop-up add" or a service anouncement.

On your core routers? That'd seem like a bad idea...perhaps at the edge (like your customer concentrators) but I digress..

What I want to do is set up this box to watch web traffic, and when a new user logs in it checks to see "for example" if he has new mail on our mail-server, and pop-up a little window on his/her screen alerting them about this. But I don't want to make the user be required to use our home page as the start page.

From what you're asking for I'm not sure why you'd need to watch their Web traffic. Just watch their log-in, likely less hassle and requires no funniness on backbone routers.

Can anyone tell me the name of this product, I am already aware of FrontPorch and their product would work, but they require me to allow them to to advertising to my customers, I don't want that.

Try list@inet-access.net. Honestly, that list has a lot of access providers and likely several are doing what you describe who can offer you some assistance. I've seen it done and it's a fairly straightforward concept (just requires a small client app on the end-user host) but I've never had to do it myself. List info: To: list-request@inet-access.net Body: subscribe -jr ---- Josh Richards [JTR38/JR539-ARIN] <jrichard@geekresearch.com/cubicle.net/fix.net/freedom.gen.ca.us> Geek Research LLC - <URL:http://www.geekresearch.com/> IP Network Engineering and Consulting