METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE TRANSPARENT TRANSMISSION OF DATA TRAFFIC BETWEEN DATA PROCESSING DEVICES, CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND CORRESPONDING COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

摘要

The invention relates to a method and a system for the transparent transmission of data traffic between data processing devices, a corresponding computer program product, and a corresponding computer-readable storage medium, which can be used especially for transparently inserting, modifying, and/or removing data packets into/in/from the data traffic by introducing a second computer system (serially connected computer system) into the network interface of a main computer and processing the network traffic in the inventive manner. Individual packets and/or connections can be affected in a selective manner or all packets and/or connections can be affected as a whole. An important aspect of the invention lies in the fact that the serially connected computer system transmits data traffic between the main computer and a partner, the serially connected computer imitating the address properties of the main computer in relation to the partner and/or the address properties of the partner in relation to the main computer.