Packets of Death
As someone who works with FPGAs/ASICs, this isn't that weird.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.What's more interesting is that it bypasses all of the checks to prevent this from happening.Here is the wiki page on the INVITE OF DEATH which sounds like the problem you hit:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INVITE_of_Death