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• etwork meltdown n. A state of complete network overload
  the network equivalent of thrashing. This may be induced by a Chernobyl packet....
• broadcast storm: n. An incorrect packet broadcast on a network that causes most hosts to respond all at once, typically with wrong answers that start the process over again.
  See {network meltdown}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• 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....
• broadcast storm n. [common] An incorrect packet broadcast on a network that causes most hosts to respond all at once, typically with wrong answers that start the process over again.
  See network meltdown; compare mail storm....
• 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....
• 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....
• 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....
• meltdown, network n. See network meltdown.
• 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....