Deploying Honeypots for Home Network Monitoring

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You can find some additional information and resources from our friends
over at the Shadowserver Foundation as well: 
http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Information.Honeypots

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> Sounds like fun!
>
> A word of caution though, anytime you setup a honeypot with the
> intention of letting it fall victim to attackers keep it separate.  I
> like to physically separate them, give them different IP ranges, use a
> separate firewall, etc...  Also, you will want to rate limit the out
> going traffic and monitor closely (the last thing you want is your IP
> banned because your honeypot is sending SPAM).
>
> I'd take a look at the Honeynet Project (http://www.honeynet.org/) for
> more information.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
> infolookup at gmail.com wrote:
> > Hello All:
> >
> > I have been doing some brief research on Honeypots, and Botnets after
> > looking at my Firewall logs and noticing a few specify IP address
> > that try to attack my network around the clock.
> >
> > This has caused me to look into  a test environment where I could
> > better monitor these activities.
> >
> > Any and all suggestions are welcomed. Sent from my Verizon Wireless
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