<networking> /cher-noh'b*l pak'*t/ A networkpacket that induces a broadcast storm and/or network meltdown, named in memory of the April 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl in Ukraine.
The typical scenario involves an IPEthernetdatagram that passes through a gateway with both source and destination Ethernet address and IP address set as the respective broadcast addresses for the subnetworks being gated between.
