RE: Setting up honeyd on winxp sp2

["Roger A. Grimes" <roger () banneretcs com>]

I agree.  Win32-Honeyd badly needs an upgrade, but I know Michael is way
to busy to update it these days.

But for many, who simply cannot (or do not want to) learn Linux/Unix, it
is an alternative.

Still, today, learning GNU/Linux or BSD is such a positive benefit for a
million other reasons, including Honeyd, that it should be considered by
anyone looking to get more involved with honeypots or security.  

I've been encouraging the pure Windows folks to check out one of the
other, easier to setup Window honeypots (e.g. Kfsensor, Patriotbox,
Spector), for the last few months.

-----Original Message-----
From: Niels Provos [mailto:provos () citi umich edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 1:34 PM
To: Roger A. Grimes
Cc: Edmund Dorsey; honeypots () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Setting up honeyd on winxp sp2

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 01:14:15PM -0400, Roger A. Grimes wrote:
> As others have suggested, running Honeyd on XP is problematic.  
> Consider running it on an W2K or other box.

To the get most of Honeyd, you really need to run it on a Unix system.
There have been several critical improvements that are not reflected in
the current Windows port.

Niels.