DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING PACKETS, FOR A ROUTER OF A COMMUNICATION NETWORK WITH A VIEW TO THE ROUTING OF SUSPECT PACKETS TO DEDICATED ANALYSIS EQUIPMENT

摘要

A control device (D) is intended to form part of a router (R1) of a communication network. This router (R1) comprises analysis means (MA) responsible for determining in the header of a data packet, received and to be routed, the destination address that it contains, with a view to the routing of this packet received to this destination address. The device (D) comprises i) control means (MC) responsible, should the analysis means (MA) determine a header comprising a nonallocated or inaccessible destination address, for extracting the packet containing this header, and ii) processing means (MT) responsible for associating with a packet extracted by the control means (MC) a chosen replacement destination address, allocated to an item of packet analysis equipment (EA1), so that the router (R1) routes to this associated replacement destination address.