Freeware to determine IP address of chatter

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Are there free network monitoring programs out there I can use to see
the IP addresses of the people I'm chatting with?

Thanks
 
Squidward said:
Are there free network monitoring programs out there I can use to see
the IP addresses of the people I'm chatting with?
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Start -> Accesssories -> Command Prompt
enter "netstat /an"

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Squidward said:
<SNIP> newbie...
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Now there's a word I haven't heard for a while. I could never
understand why it was used in a derogatory sense. As if we weren't
*all* newbies at some time.
 
Hey bite your tongue I was never a newbie!! I was born with all this
computer knowledge. But I do have one question, whats an IP address??? Thats
like the GPS numbers to the location of my bathroom right???
 
Larry said:
Hey bite your tongue I was never a newbie!! I was born with all this
computer knowledge. But I do have one question, whats an IP address??? Thats
like the GPS numbers to the location of my bathroom right???
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You got it in one Larry :)
 
Are there free network monitoring programs out there I can use to see
the IP addresses of the people I'm chatting with?
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Chatting on AOL? Chatting on IRC? Chatting on an IM program?
Chatting on a Java client on a web site? Depending on how you're
connected to the other person the method caries from simple to "you
can't do it".
 
Thanks for your replies.
I was thinking of chatting on IM software and on a Java client. I'm
going to try the netstat/an suggested by Man-Wai, but if you have any
other programs in mind, I would be happy to know them. :)
 
Squidward written:
Thanks for your replies.
I was thinking of chatting on IM software and on a Java client. I'm
going to try the netstat/an suggested by Man-Wai
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With netstat, you will most likely have to discover a way to identify
the desired IP from the list.

Just for the example, I'm in a home LAN (3 computers); I'm running right
now:

- Firefox with 3 tabs open
- Gravity (newsreader)
- [OT, shareware] mIRC
- MSN Messenger
- SoulSeek (P2P program)
- EvilLyrics (Winamp plug-in that downloads lyrics for the now-playing
song)

and I get from Netstat:
(Sorry, my Windows is in Portuguese. The columns mean:
'protocol', 'local address', 'external address', 'state')

Conexões ativas

Proto Endereço local Endereço externo Estado
TCP 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:135 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:4664 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:13545 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:44334 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 127.0.0.1:1855 127.0.0.1:1856 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:1856 127.0.0.1:1855 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.1:139 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 201.14.213.221:2109 208.98.7.13:6668 ESTABLISHED
TCP 201.14.213.221:2544 38.115.131.131:2240 ESTABLISHED
[...]

There are 70 or so addresses in the list. It is not easy to tell the
desired IP.

And, in some IM services, the main server is in the middle (you send
message -> server receives -> forwards it to the other person), so you
can't see the IP address of the person. Only file sends are direct (from
your IP to the remote person IP). At least MSN Messenger was like this,
the last time I checked.
 
And, in some IM services, the main server is in the middle (you send
message -> server receives -> forwards it to the other person), so you
can't see the IP address of the person. Only file sends are direct (from
your IP to the remote person IP). At least MSN Messenger was like this,
the last time I checked.
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Also with Java clients, the IP you see may be the IP of the site the
client was on, since that site (or some other site) acts as a server.

On IRC it's a lot easier - on networks that don't mask the address,
it's as easy as typing one command.
 
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