I had been messing around with some new tool to generate bespoke weird packets all day when in the afternoon I was introduced to my new intern. I was talking a

I had been messing around with some new tool to generate bespoke weird packets all day when in the afternoon I was introduced to my new intern. I was talking about what garbage our ethernet switches were (this was one of the earliest L3 switches-- full of blue wire bodges and buggy firmware), and how I'd already encountered a dozen different ways of crashing them. While typing I started saying "and I bet if I send it an ICMP redirect from itself (typing) to itself (typing) it won't like that at all! (enter)" --- and over the cube partitions I hear the support desk phones start ringing. Fortunately it was a bit after the end of the day and it didn't take me long to reboot the switch. I didn't actually expect it to kill it. I probably should have.