I’m setting up a Raspberry Pi to use at work as a host that can respond to ping requests and provide a target to test monitoring software against. It occurred to me that this might be more useful if I add something to the Pi to spice it up a bit: honeypot software. What could be more fun than having a honeypot that one could drop onto a network at a moment’s notice?

Here’s where I found my first clues on how to do such a thing:
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/A+Honeypot+for+home:+Raspberry+Pi/18463

Here I go!