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Excluding address ranges in arpd/honeyd
From: "Williams Jon" <WilliamsJonathan () JohnDeere com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:07:26 -0500
Honeypots are cool, right? Looks like a good way to help identify worms and bad people, right? So, I set up honeyd on a subnet that's all mine, set up rules, and fire up arpd and honeyd. My first tests worked fine. I specified the unused portion of the local subnet. That all worked, generated dynamic hosts and everything. Now, I get a bit more ambitious. The plan is to send any packet that isn't destined to an allocated network inside the WAN and route them to the honeypot. Looking through the docs, I see that if I don't specify an IP address/network on the commandline, the default behavior for both arpd and honeyd is to just look at all IP traffic. So, now my IDS starts seeing something odd. It is getting packets sourced from 224.0.0.2, an IANA-reserved multicast address that is NEVER supposed to be the source of any packet, destined to the default router in my local subnet. Checking further, it appears that honeyd happily responded, just as configured, to the HSRP packets being sent to 224.0.0.2 with an ICMP port unreach, source by the multicast address! Now, the router guys tell me that this is a Bad Thing(TM). I don't want to hose the network, so I figure I either need to figure out how to exclude networks from being virtualized by honeyd or I need to abandon this whole thing. Whipping out The Fine Manual, I looked to see if the commandline was standard BPF or not, and it appears to be not, even though both programs seem to use BPF notation internally. My question is this: how do I configure arpd and honeyd to honeypot all addresses EXCEPT certain ones? If I were doing a BPF, I think it'd read "not net 224.0.0.0/8 and not net 192.168.1.0/24". Thanks. Jon
Current thread:
- Excluding address ranges in arpd/honeyd Williams Jon (Jun 11)
- Re: Excluding address ranges in arpd/honeyd Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 13)
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- RE: Excluding address ranges in arpd/honeyd Williams Jon (Jun 14)