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any android phone is going to be sending these packets. Its a multicast packet going to the broadcast address of the network. Your laptop, having SSDP enabled, is listening for these packets. SSDP is enabled by default on windows computers. And the packet basically says, hey if you wanna cast a video to a google device, im here and im available.
Also, cell phones for many years now have connected (by default) to wireless networks using a randomized spoofed back address so they arent to be getting tracked at all the random hotspots people connect to.

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any android phone is going to be sending these packets. Its a multicast packet going to the broadcast address of the network. Your laptop, having SSDP enabled, is listening for these packets. SSDP is enabled by default on windows computers. And the packet basically says, hey if you wanna cast a video to a google device, im here and im available.
Also, cell phones for many years now have connected (by default) to wireless networks using a randomized spoofed ~~back address~~ MAC addresses so they arent to be getting tracked at all the random hotspots people connect to. This is why the device's mac is not registered.