This should be doable since in preference you can set an IP number not to count as a hit on counters.

I once toyed with the idea and came up with a novel onload form redirect to provide myself with an IP heart beat process for systems that I wanted to keep in touch with.

Keep in mind its very krude but it can be quite useful. see

http://lair3.com/ADesk for an example the frame master is _main.htm FYI. So you can hack it apart from there just view the source of index.htm from your browser cache to see the onload form redirect. (uses FrontPage Server Extension enabled site)

Yep I wanted to eventually make this some kind of data base solution but time is infinately cruel to IT peeps :)
Besides it did what I wanted it to for the most part. Have fun and hope this helps.

This would make for a nice admin module for someone to Xoop out on.

-Mars or Bust- oh and All Your Base Are Belong To Us !