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network closet
Network Computing Devices
network database
Network Definition Language
Network Device Interface Specification
Network extensible Window System
Network File System
Network Filing System
Network Information Center
Network Information Service
Network Information System
network interface card
network interface controller
network layer
network layer reachability information
network management
-- network meltdown --
Network News Transfer Protocol
Network Node Interface
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network segment
Network Solutions, Inc.
Network Termination
Network Time Protocol
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network meltdown

network meltdown - (By analogy with catastrophic failure of a nuclear reactor) An event that causes saturation, or near saturation, on a network. It usually results from illegal or misrouted packets and typically lasts only a short time. It is the network equivalent of thrash ing. This may be induced by a Chernobyl packet.

See also broadcast storm, kamikaze packet.

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