Method for the remote management of a device connected to a residential gateway

A method for the remote management of a device connected to a local area network, said local area network being connected to an internet network by means of a residential gateway, referred to as a gateway, the method comprising, when it is executed by the gateway:

• intercepting a first request coming from the device comprising an address of a first server for which the first request is intended, the purpose of the first request being to obtain an address of a second server with which the device must be connected;
• analysing said first request in order to obtain at least one identifier of the device;
• and
• determining a processing operation to be applied to said first request, from among a plurality of processing operations, according to the identifier of the device and configuration information obtained from an operator, said configuration information comprising information representing a set of devices, the plurality of processing operations comprising a processing operation, called redirection, applied when the device belongs to said set of devices comprising responding to the first request without contributing the first server;
• when the processing operation to be applied is a redirection, supplying to said device a response to said first request containing the address of the second server so that the device can connect with the second server.