Part of my job is to test (and re-test) first-time setup workflows for new and repurposed Macs. I recently needed to analyze the flow of network traffic during initial MDM enrollment to confirm an on-premise network was permitting all required traffic. The tcpdump tool – included with macOS – is a powerful utility that allows you to record all network traffic passing through any interface on the Mac. It requires elevated privileges to run, however. This presents a problem, since we do not...
