Recovery when system is "dead" (Score 1)

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

• Recovering Internet Service Sessions from Operating System Failures.
• Remote Repair of Operating System State Using Backdoors.

Hope slashdotters find this interesting....