giant Last modified: Thursday, May 08, 2003
When used in reference to networks, a giant is a packet that is too large to traverse the network. Network protocols such as Ethernet often require that packets can not be over a specific number of bytes in order to travel the network. Also see runt.

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Ethernet local-area network packet runt

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