yeah I've been doing this...also, you can do this from within Max using the [shell] object...just translate the output to ascii (or whatever type of numbers you want), connect it to the DAC and voila...kim;you can also cat tcpdump to a text file (use the ">" symbol with cat instead of "|") and then use soundhack/amadeus/etc to hack a header on it.
when discussion of this type of thing came up recently on databenders (i think), someone suggested using SOX, which can receive data via pipe and encode it into audio immediately.
sox compiles on osx, but you may also snag it with fink, i believe.
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