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From: hedrick@ARAMIS.RUTGERS.EDU (Charles Hedrick)
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Subject: Re: TCP/IP Slang Glossary
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Date: Sat, 7-Nov-87 17:13:32 EST
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  fuzzball - the name of a kind of IP router.  It is based on an LSI-11,
	and is used on the NSFnet backbone and various other critical places.
	The code is maintained by Dave Mills, and is often referred to by
	him as "fuzzware".
  swamp - a collection of networks.  The implication is that they overall
	architecture is somewhat dubious (e.g. connected by a mixture of
	level 2 and level 3 things, with several networks numbers on a 
	single cable).
  bogon - a bogus packet, often a packet that has escaped the net it is
	supposed to be on, e.g. a packet on the Arpanet addressed to
	127.0.0.1 (the Unix loopback interface address), however it is
	also used to refer to packets with other kinds of errors.
  Martian - properly speaking, a packet addressed to net 126.0.0.0,
	which is reserved for the Central University of Mars.  By extension,
	any packet addressed to an unallocated or reserved IP address,
	or to a broadcast address.  (These packets could also be called
	bogons, of course.)  A "Martian filter" is a pieces of code designed
	to discard Martians.