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• uper source quench: n. A special packet designed to shut up an Internet host.
  The Internet Protocol (IP) has a control message called Source Quench that asks a host to transmit more slowly on a particular connection to avoid congestion....
• Godzillagram /god-zil'*-gram/ n. [from Japan's national hero] 1.
  A network packet that in theory is a broadcast to every machine in the universe....
• Godzillagram: /god-zil'*-gram/ n. [from Japan's national hero] 1.
  A network packet that in theory is a broadcast to every machine in the universe....
• martian n. A packet sent on a TCP/IP network with a source address of the test loopback interface [127.
  0.0.1]. This means that it will come back labeled with a source address that is clearly not of this earth....
• breath-of-life packet n. [XEROX PARC] An Ethernet packet that contains bootstrap (see boot) code
  periodically sent out from a working computer to infuse the `breath of life' into any computer on the network that has happened to crash....
• breath-of-life packet: [XEROX PARC] n. An Ethernet packet that contains bootstrap (see {boot}) code
  periodically sent out from a working computer to infuse the `breath of life' into any computer on the network that has happened to crash....
• Internet n. The mother of all networks. First incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, a U.
  S. Department of Defense research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goal was to develop a network architecture for military command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and including nuclear war, this is a myth...
• martian: n. A packet sent on a TCP/IP network with a source address of the test loopback interface [127.
  0.0.1]. This means that it will come back labeled with a source address that is clearly not of this earth....
• ping [from the submariners' term for a sonar pulse] 1.
  . Slang term for a small network message (ICMP ECHO) sent by a computer to check for the presence and alertness of another....