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• 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....
• 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....
• 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....
• 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....
• 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....
• 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....
• 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....