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Chernobyl packet

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.

Courtesy of 'The Jargon File 4.4.7'
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