macOS
TCP ports
Open your Terminal and enter the following command:
nc -v ip-of-your-honeypot port
Replace ip-of-your-honeypot with the IP address of your Honeypot. Replace port with the port you would like to test.
You should receive a message like Connection to ip-of-your-honeypot port port [tcp/protocol] succeeded!
UDP ports
Open your Terminal and enter the following command:
nc -vu ip-of-your-honeypot port
Replace ip-of-your-honeypot with the IP address of your Honeypot. Replace port with the port you would like to test.
You should receive a message like Connection to ip-of-your-honeypot port port [udp/protocol] succeeded!
Note: this doesn't confirm the UDP port is open! Check your dashboard for a detection.
Windows
TCP ports
Open Command Prompt and enter the following command:
telnet ip-of-your-honeypot port
Replace ip-of-your-honeypot with the IP address of your Honeypot. Replace port with the port you would like to test.
You should receive a message like Connected to ip-of-your-honeypot.
Other
An easy test is to open port 80/TCP in your Honeypot. After you opened this Port, go to the IP of your Honeypot in your browser. You should receive a detection now. This won't work if you already have our HTTP sensor running on port 80. In that case, the HTTP sensor will be triggered.