strange ethereal question

[Brian Densmore]

>     I looked into using Net::Pcap, but it appeared to only take input
>     form a network device and didn't appear to allow me to 
> just hand it
>     a packet for encoding into pcap format. I'll look into 
> saving it out
>     as hex formatted text. 
> 
>     Thanks for you help on this. 
> 
Ok, stupid question. Isn't it possible to "create" a device file that
looks like 
network device and then have your code read that file/"device"? After
all isn't
that supposed to be the beauty of *nix; that everything is just a file?

Brian D