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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....
• 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....
• 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....
• RFC /R-F-C/ n. [Request For Comment] One of a long-established series of numbered Internet informational documents and standards widely followed by commercial software and freeware in the Internet and Unix communities.
  Perhaps the single most influential one has been RFC-822 (the Internet mail-format standard)....
• BITNET: /bit'net/ [acronym: Because It's Time NETwork] n.
  Everybody's least favorite piece of the network (see {network, the})....
• Any system must be designed to withstand the worst possible set of circumstances.
  -- Sodd's Second Law, Corollary 1...
• etwork packets travelling uphill (use a carrier pigeon)
• etwork down, IP packets delivered via UPS