Installing and Configuring Honeyd
As an OpenSource solution designed for Unix, Honeyd does not provide any support or a nice GUI for installation or configuring. Instead, you download the source code to your honeypot, compile the source code, and then install the Honeyd binary and configuration files. You then run the Honeyd binary from the command line, using the two configuration files, to the network you want it to monitor. Once started, Honeyd will interact with any attack sent its way. The command to start Honeyd looks something like this.
honeyd -p /etc/honeyd/nmap.prints -f /etc/honeyd/honeyd.conf 192.168.1.0/24
The first command is executing the binary Honeyd. The -p option is the location of the Nmap fingerprints file. This is the ...
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