Hi,

after doing all advice theoretically (I'm not a network admin), I coded a small test to see where the problem is:

  1 #!/usr/bin/env perl
  2 use 5.010;
  3 use strict;
  4 use utf8;
  5 use warnings qw(all);
  6
  7 use local::lib 'cisco';
  8
  9 use Net::Telnet::Cisco;
 10
 11 my $session = Net::Telnet::Cisco->new(
 12         Host => "192.168.168.2",
 13         Timeout => 3,
 14     );
 15 $session->login(Password => 'secret');

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A run of that shows:

problem connecting to "192.168.168.2", port 23: connect timed-out at a
+m304.pl line 11

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AAAAHHH, the exception is thrown on line 11. It seems that the method new is doing a connect to host mentioned. IMHO that's an API misdesign, but anyways.

Conclusion:

BUT: Now the interesting part. Putting an eval around the method new can catch the exception, but not the exception message. And that's worth another thread herein.

Best regards
McA

In reply to Re: Cisco Telnet by McA
in thread Cisco Telnet by mvip

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