Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] aim sniffer

[Jeff Heath <jheath1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

you can't sniff packets unless you have some sort of physical access to
them.

You'll need to install ethereal on your cousins machine, and then access
it remotely using a program like VNC.

Jeff



However On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 00:29, Sean W. wrote:
> i was wondering is there any way to capture WAN
> traffic between two computers that are not on the same
> LAN? I am trying to monitor a computer's AIM
> converations in new york (my cousin) and i'm having a
> hard time setting it up. is this possible? i have his
> ip address, do i need his mac address and the ip and
> mac of the other machines hes connecting to?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> sean
> 
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