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Chernobyl packet
/chernohb@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.