9. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the packet capture module includes an application interface configured to receive a request for data from the application and, in response to the request, to represent the receiver packet memory as a file to the application.
9. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the packet capture module includes an application interface configured to receive a request for data from the application and, in response to the request, to represent the receiver packet memory as a file to the application. 10. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the application migrates certain packets from the receiver packet memory by performing a mapping to the file, the application using file system commands and handles to reference data in the receiver packet memory.