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My Mac did that too but I tracked it to Wake on LAN, some random probes from other equipment were walking it up sometimes.


What kind of evil IoT crapware is sending WoL packets to random devices on the network?


It wasn't actual WoL. It was broadcasts. For some reason it woke the Mac up when WoL was switched on. We're taking 2015 or so so I don't have the packet logs anymore but I was able to replicate it by resending them.

So the fault is really the Mac's. It should only accept real well formed WoL packets with its own Mac address.




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