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• Christmas tree n. A kind of RS-232 line tester or breakout box featuring rows of blinking red and green LEDs suggestive of Christmas lights.
• 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....
• display hack: n. A program with the same approximate purpose as a kaleidoscope
  o make pretty pictures. Famous display hacks include {munching squares}, {smoking clover}, the BSD UNIX `rain(6)' program, `worms(6)' on miscellaneous UNIXes, and the {X} `kaleid(1)' program....
• A few too many lights out in his Christmas tree.
• BRS: /B-R-S/ n. Syn. {Big Red Switch}. This abbreviation is fairly common on-line.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• Not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree.
• 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....
• flavor: n. 1. Variety, type, kind. "DDT commands come in two flavors.
  These lights come in two flavors, big red ones and small green ones....