Ok I have scoured the web for an answer and perhaps I just haven't liked what I found lol. But my situation is as follows. I have different environments that kind of works like this. login-environment - can telnet into node prod-environment - can not ( can't even ping due to permissions on that one.) So I was attempting tp SSH into "login" and from there telnet into the desired node to pass my commands" 
sub turnOnOff {
    my ($self,$args) = @_;
    
    my $cmd = shift;
    my $telnet = new Net::Telnet ( Timeout=>10, Errmode=>'die');
    my $ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new("$hostname", debug=>0);
    $ssh->login("$username","$password");
    
    $ssh->cmd($telnet->open($self->{'ipAddress'}));
    $ssh->cmd($telnet->waitfor('/[\$#%:><][\s\b]+$/'));
    $ssh->cmd($telnet->print($loginUser));
    $ssh->cmd($telnet->waitfor('/[\$#%:><][\s\b]+$/'));
    $ssh->cmd($telnet->print($userPW));
    $ssh->cmd($telnet->waitfor('/[\$#%:><][\s\b]+$/'));
    $ssh->cmd($telnet->print("$self->{'strOnOff'} 1"));
    $ssh->cmd($telnet->waitfor('/[\$#%:><][\s\b]+$/'));
    $ssh->cmd($telnet->print("y"));
    $ssh->cmd($telnet->waitfor('/[\$#%:><][\s\b]+$/'));
    $ssh->cmd($telnet->print("logoff"));
    
    return 1;
}

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Is this even possible?

In reply to Passing telnet commands through SSH by SiliconeClone

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