How to find the IP Address of your Online Chat friend

The steps to find the IP address of your Yahoo Messenger chat friend while chatting with him are:
1. Invite him to share a file in the middle of chat with himIf he accepts the file sharing and starts sharing a file there is connection between your computer and his computer starts. This make your computers in peer to peer mode.
2. Open command prompt and type netstat -n command and press enterNow the list of IP addresses to which your computer has an active TCP/IP connection.
[ I recommend you to perform the same task before establishing the peer to peer connection with your chat friend and note the IP addresses at that time. It will help you to easily identifie your victim's IP address. ]
To get more details than the boring IP address ,you can use the following command.
netstat -a
Note:Please note that while you process the netstat command your computer and his computer should have an active connection. If there is no connection at that time you will get only the Yahoo chat server IP address instead of his IP address.