Also, I have tried to pass the transport-specific Timeout parameters through the constructor, such as this for 'SSH':

                connect_options => {
                    opts => [
                        '-o', 'ConnectTimeout=100',
                    ],
                },
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When establishing the session it still times out after 10 seconds:

[  11.389935] pr failed: [read timed-out at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5
+.10.0/Net/CLI/Interact/Transport/Wrapper/Net_Telnet.pm line 35
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I can't find it, but I'm thinking there must be an 'alarm 10' (or something like this) buried somewhere in the module.