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Re:Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mo... by GekkePrutser on Friday September 24, 2021 @04:49PM (#28647635)
My Mac did that too but I tracked it to Wake on LAN, some random probes from other equipment were walking it up sometimes.
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Re:Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mo... by oauea on Friday September 24, 2021 @06:15PM (#28648407)
What kind of evil IoT crapware is sending WoL packets to random devices on the network?
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Re:Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mo... by GekkePrutser on Saturday September 25, 2021 @06:00PM (#28656559)
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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