How Specter Works
Like BOF, Specter will listen on the respective ports for any of the services or traps you have selected. If your system has the netstat -a command, it will show the ports you have selected and enabled as open and listening. Specter shares the same limitations as BOF. Specifically, it cannot listen on or monitor a port that is already owned by another application. If you have some service listening on the FTP port (port 21), then Specter is unable to monitor on that port. If you are running your own personal Web server on the honeypot, then Specter cannot monitor port 80. Specter can only monitor ports that are not owned by any other applications.
As we mentioned earlier, Specter also has the capability of emulating different ...
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