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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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