MacOS 27 - First Boot, (Tue, Sep 15th)
I have not done this type of diary in a while: What traffic will you see from a system on boot, before a user logs in? I just took a quick look at macOS 27 "Golden Gate" to see what traffic you should expect. Here are some of the highlights: I captured about 300 packets. This was likely inflated for this particular system as it connected via Wi-Fi and wired network interfaces. Each network interface will do its own DHCP/IP discovery during boot. I only used router advertisements for IPv6, not…
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