chernobyl packet

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chernobyl packet - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Chernobyl packet
  
     <networking> /cher-noh'b*l pak'*t/ A network packet that
     induces a broadcast storm and/or network meltdown, named
     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 Ethernet address and IP address set as the
     respective broadcast addresses for the subnetworks being gated
     between.
  
     Compare Christmas tree packet.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (2004-02-17)
  

chernobyl packet - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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. Compare Christmas tree packet.