3. The apparatus of claim 1 , 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.
3. The apparatus of claim 1 , 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. 5. The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the control memory that includes pointers to the receiver packet memory for identifying certain locations of at least some of the packets in the receiver packet memory.