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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.