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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