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Re:Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu ... by _qulr on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @05:35PM (#24842587)
I can't speak about 5 years ago, but I was using Little Snitch with VMWare last year, and it worked. I had to specifically allow the VMWare process.
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Re:Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu ... by Sporktacular on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @06:18PM (#24842900)
Guest traffic was visible when the VM was in NAT mode, but when switched to Bridged mode traffic went straight through with LS unaware. I suppose LS was only sniffing the standard adapters, though this could have been improved since.
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Re:Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu ... by belthesar on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @08:18PM (#24843687)
That's likely because VMWare Workstation's bridge mode likely injects into the networking stack at the same point that Little Snitch does.
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Re:Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu ... by _qulr on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @08:05PM (#24843606)
I was only trialing VMWare before, so unfortunately I can't test this anymore.
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Re:Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu ... by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @08:12PM (#24843641)
Heads up that VMWare Fusion has a free version on Mac as of this month. :)
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