Toggle navigation
Collections
Fun
Jokes
Fortune
Photo
Nicknames
Blog
ﻮﺑﻻگ
Iran
Christmas Tree Packet N. A Packet With Every Single Option Set For Whatever Protocol Is In Use.
Home
›
Fortune Cookies
›
Jargon File
Christmas tree packet n.
A packet with every single
option set for whatever protocol is in use. See kamikaze packet,
Godzillagram.
Related:
Christmas tree packet: n. A packet with every single option set for whatever protocol is in use.
See {kamikaze packet}, {Chernobyl packet}. (The term doubtless derives from a fanciful image of each little option bit being represented by a different-colored light bulb, all turned on....
kamikaze packet n. The `official' jargon for what is more commonly called a Christmas tree packet.
RFC-1 "TCP and IP Bake Off" says: 10 points for correctly being able to process a "Kamikaze" packet (AKA nastygram, christmas tree packet, lamp test segment, et al....
kamikaze packet: n. The `official' jargon for what is more commonly called a {Christmas tree packet}.
{RFC}-1025, "TCP and IP Bake Off" says: 10 points for correctly being able to process a "Kamikaze" packet (AKA nastygram, christmas tree packet, lamp test segment, et al....
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....
etwork meltdown: n. A state of complete network overload
he network equivalent of {thrash}ing. This may be induced by a {Chernobyl packet}....
Chernobyl packet /cher-noh'b*l pak'*t/ n. A network packet that induces a broadcast storm and/or network Chernobyl in Ukraine.
The typical scenario involves an IP Ethernet datagram that passes through a gateway with both source and destination Ether and IP address set as the respective broadcast addresses for the subnetworks being gated between....
Chernobyl packet: /cher-noh'b*l pak'*t/ n. A network packet that induces a {broadcast storm} and/or {network meltdown}, in memory of the April 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl in Ukraine.
The typical scenario involves an IP Ethernet datagram that passes through a gateway with both source and destination Ether and IP address set as the respective broadcast addresses for the subnetworks being gated between....
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....