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Chernobyl packet
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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.
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