super 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. It also
has a Redirect control message intended to instruct a host to send certain
packets to a different local router. A super source quench is actually a
redirect control packet, forged to look like it came from a local router,
that instructs a host to send all packets to its own local loopback address.
This will effectively tie many Internet hosts up in knots. Compare
Godzillagram , breath-of-life packet.

