Packets of Death
As someone who works with FPGAs/ASICs, this isn't that weird.<p>Everything gets serialized/deserialized these days, so there's all kinds of boundary conditions where you can flip just the right bit and get the data to be deserialized the wrong way.<p>What's more interesting is that it bypasses all of the checks to prevent this from happening.<p>Here is the wiki page on the INVITE OF DEATH which sounds like the problem you hit:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INVITE_of_Death" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INVITE_of_Death</a>