Chapter 6: Honeyd Configuration

		Chapter 6 - Honeyd Configuration Honeypots for Windows by Roger A. Grimes Apress 2005

Overview

Chapter 5 explained how to install Honeyd and its supporting software. In this chapter, you will learn how to configure and implement Honeyd. By the end of this chapter, you should have a working honeypot prepared for intruders to explore.

Honeyd is executed with a handful of runtime command-line options. First, we will review those options, and then we will create a Honeyd.bat batch file to execute Honeyd with some of the typical command-line options. Next, we will create and configure a Honeyd configuration file. Finally, we will test the configuration and runtime operations.

The instructions in this chapter assume that you have correctly configured your network and the Honeyd host PC to pass appropriate traffic to and from the honeypot. Review Chapters 2, 3, and 5, if you need to complete those preparations.