super source quench
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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