18. The medium of claim 17 , wherein at least some of the packets received from the network interface module are placed in the receiver packet memory, which is accessible by the application via an application interface that represents the receiver packet memory as a file.
18. The medium of claim 17 , wherein at least some of the packets received from the network interface module are placed in the receiver packet memory, which is accessible by the application via an application interface that represents the receiver packet memory as a file. 20. The medium of claim 18 , wherein the control memory includes pointers to the receiver packet memory for identifying certain locations of at least some of the packets in the receiver packet memory, and wherein the control memory is accessible by the network interface module via the network interface driver and the application via the application interface.