strange ethereal question

[Hal Duston]

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 11:28, Brian Densmore wrote:
> > 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?

Except network devices under Linux.  I.e. there is no /dev/eth0.

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Hal