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Computing | Breath-of-life packet n. [XEROX PARC] An Ethernet packet that contains bootstrap (see boot) code, periodically sent out from a working computer to infuse the `breath of life' into any computer on the network that has happened to crash. Machines depending on such packets have sufficient hardware or firmware code to wait for (or request) such a packet during the reboot process. See also dickless workstation. The notional `kiss-of-death packet', with a function complementary to that of a breath-of-life packet, is recommended for dealing with hosts that consume too many network resources. Though `kiss-of-death packet' is usually used in jest, there is at least one documented instance of an Internet subnet with limited address-table slots in a gateway machine in which such packets were routinely used to compete for slots, rather like Christmas shoppers competing for scarce parking spaces. Source: Jargon File. |
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Crosswords: BREATH-OF-LIFE PACKET |
| Specialty definitions using "BREATH-OF-LIFE PACKET": diskless workstation ♦ super source quench. (references) |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 52 45 41 54 48 2D 4F 46 2D 4C 49 46 45 50 41 43 4B 45 54 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01010010 01000101 01000001 01010100 01001000 00101101 01001111 01000110 00101101 01001100 01001001 01000110 01000101 00100000 01010000 01000001 01000011 01001011 01000101 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B R E A T H - O F - L I F E   P A C K E T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0052 0045 0041 0054 0048 002D 004F 0046 002D 004C 0049 0046 0045 0050 0041 0043 004B 0045 0054 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36523935544215494015464340392503537453954 |
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