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• 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....
• 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....
• etwork meltdown: n. A state of complete network overload
  he network equivalent of {thrash}ing. This may be induced by a {Chernobyl packet}....
• 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....
• 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...
• 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....
• 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....