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• iff v.,n. 1. To watch IP packets traversing a local network.
  Most often in the phrase `packet sniffer', a program for doing same. 2.Synonym for poll....
• 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....
• 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 packets travelling uphill (use a carrier pigeon)
• Ping O' Death n. A notorious exploit that (when first discovered) could be easily used to crash a wide variety of machines by overunning size limits in their TCP/IP stacks.
  First revealed in late 1996. The open-source Unix community patched its systems to remove the vulnerability within days or weeks, the closed-source OS vendors generally took months....
• All the world's a net! And all the data in it merely packets come to store-and-forward in the queues a while and then are heard no more.
  'Tis a network waiting to be switched! -- Vint Cerf...
• (A)bort, (R)etry, (T)ake down entire network?
• 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....