Researchers at Rutgers University described a
similar system where live internet connections on a server system were recovered by using a programmable NIC.
The idea is basically to use a programmable device, an NIC, an iPod, or any other device that can initiate DMA without relying on the OS.
A couple of papers about this are
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The idea is basically to use a programmable device, an NIC, an iPod, or any other device that can initiate DMA without relying on the OS. A couple of papers about this are
Hope slashdotters find this interesting....
Well, These are two different people. Alan L. Cox is a FreeBSD commiter. Here is his homepage : http://www.cs.rice.edu/~alc/