Chernobyl packet

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A Chernobyl packet is a network packet that induces a broadcast storm and/or network meltdown. The term was named 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.

See also

• Christmas tree packet
• martian packet