How does something like this access my network? Like if I'm connected to WiFi, what's the stack look like for this chip getting access to that without the OS cooperating?
"The Intel 82566 Gigabit Network Connection identifies out-of-band (OOB) network traffic (traffic targeted to Intel AMT) and routes it to the Intel ME instead of to the CPU. Intel AMT traffic is identified by dedicated IANA-registered port numbers. The [southbridge] holds the filter definitions that are applied to incoming and outgoing in-band network traffic (the message traffic to and from the CPU). These include both internally-defined filters and the application filters..."