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