packet - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • crisp: There is now no risk in eating a packet of crisps.
  • scratchings: Random Orbital Sanders A packet of pork scratchings and a pint of lager.
  • cigarette: Sending a postcard overseas to your family will cost you more than a packet of cigarettes in China!
  • cookie: Roughly how many packets of biscuits do you get through in a week?
  • cornflakes: Successful bands by their very definition are as interesting as packets of cornflakes.

Converse of object

  • destine: The problem I have is getting Packets destined for internet to go out the modem line when it's not connected.
  • retransmit: However, upon reciept of the 3rd dupack, it will still take half an rtt for the retransmitted packet to reach the sink.
  • sniff: I let him sniff the packet before using them & he looked most unimpressed ( similar to if he sniffs lemons!

Adjective modifier

  • crisp: D chases pigeons; finds empty crisp packet & makes own fountain.
  • multicast: Multicast Packets The last example of scanning to discover a target network's topology is by exploiting multicast packets.
  • incoming: A machine that runs out of memory will discard incoming packets.

Modifies a noun

  • sniffer: I don't have a packet sniffer so I don't know what is being transmitted.
  • switching: Using packet switching, various packets of information can travel along different routes on the network, allowing the carrier to optimize network capacity.

Noun used with modifier

  • TCP: It sends TCP packets to port 21 of the remote.
  • cigarette: Cigarette packets will carry health warnings in picture format.
  • udp: A network that allows UDP packets could be mapped by sending a packet to the broadcast address on a high port.
  • cereal: Get a piece of card; the back of a cereal packet will be fine.
  • multicast: The scanner needs to be upstream so that the multicast packets go only to the target and not to the rest of the Internet.

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