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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.
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