Hello,

all worked well (no more timeouts at all)

Since you mention timeouts, I'm assuming that you were able to connect to your host using $cli->connect(). Now, this is just a wild guess on my part: Have you tried using the $cli->login() after your connect? Here's the source to help with login sub.

The code will look something like this:

if ( defined($port) ) {
    print "\tSSH connection to server ($host) established!\n";
    $cli->login(...); # or $cli->put(string => "IJAF\n"), if it's wait
+ing for user input - whichever works. You can also use $cli->print(li
+ne => "IJAF");
} else {
    print "\tSSH connection to server ($host) could not be established
+... Exiting program.\n";
    exit;
}
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HTH.