We shall have to wait and see what Apple does about this.ī: Those daemons put your wired network into "monitor" mode, basically what this does is tell your network card that you want everything that is being sent to you to be handled by the OS, so it turns off filtering that is done on the network card (if it supports it) which would normally discard things that were not destined for itself (its MAC address), and then it does it all in software, using the standard filtering hooks provided by the OS it can listen to any incoming packets and grab those off the wire that are destined to the fake MAC address that VMWare has set.Įxplained in laymen terms: Lets say you are sitting at an airport and are waiting for an announcement that you can board your plane, you passively listen but ignore everything that does not contain your flight number. Even if the physical interface did not support it, the device could be put into "monitor" mode and have the MAC address matching take place higher up in the IP chain. It is still possible to this on the wireless interface en1.
A: This may be a change for security reasons in the work place (this is just pure speculation, and may or may not be true), as it seems to be a driver issue (this was possible in Tiger, I know from experience).
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