PS: I did finally decide to avoid SetTimer in my project, since I don't have a viewport/window handle in my later network class (designed to work in a DLL) and also WM_TIMER message has some bottlenecks. If you're interested read http://www.codeproject.com/system/simpletime.asp - especially the last part in the "WM_TIMER" paragraph. I think I will use an own worker thread inside the server network class (or a multimedia timer with timeSetEvent()), this can also handle notifies for finished DNS resolution or friendly TCP disconnects.

Happy coding... Moak

PS: CGnuNod::m_nSecsAlive might be better a DWORD instead of an int, it's the same on standart MS Windows architectures, but you never know your target.