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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