> Another concerning finding by the original authors is the existence of boxes that do handle RST packets. These boxes, when receiving a RST packet, react by re

> Another concerning finding by the original authors is the existence of boxes that do handle RST packets. These boxes, when receiving a RST packet, react by resending the data packet they’d already transmitted that triggered the RST in the first place; this will in turn result in another RST, and another data packet. This means that there are cases in which a box can and will end up in what amounts to an “infinite loop” of self-perpetuation amplification. That's the crazy part here. Not only do you get amplification, but it keeps going on its own until a packet gets dropped. So you get an amplification of X times, times how many times the whole thing goes back and forth on its own.