Patent ID: 9391881
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for permitting split-routing of network traffic to occur without any changes, modifications or configuration of a requesting host, network stack, network architecture, and routing and forwarding behavior, the method comprising: presenting a module residing on a local area network, the module comprising an intercept sub-module, a substitutions sub-module, and a substitutions elements sub-module configured with one or more pre-defined elements, wherein pre-defined elements comprise one or more of a default gateway address of the responding server and a local gateway address associated with a local area network and wherein the module is configured for substituting an IP address of an issuing DHCP server with an IP address of a local terminal and the substitutions elements sub-module is configured to perform the operations of deconstructing, substituting and rebuilding packets of DHCP communications; intercepting, by the intercept module, a DHCP communication between a requesting device and a DHCP server; substituting, by the substitutions sub-module, a network addressing element of the server with the one or more pre-defined elements of the substitutions elements sub-module in the server response; forwarding the communication containing the substituted element to the requesting device, thereby facilitating a split tunnel; and providing egress of traffic, wherein traffic is not local to the local area network thereby directing traffic through an alternate route and wherein only traffic destined for a native network will traverse the tunnel.