Howdy again, :-)

This time I'm having difficulty controlling the timeout when initializing a Net::Telnet session. I set Timeout to 1, I've also set -timeout to 1. However, the the constructor is taking between 20 and 30 seconds before it times out and returns to the code. I need to bring this down to 2 seconds or less. Is there any way to make this call abort if it is not successfull within 1 or 2 seconds?

Note that I am only having this problem in Windows. On the mac, the timeout works just fine.

OS: Windows 7 Enterprise
Version 6.1 (Build 7601: Service Pack 1)

PERL: v5.16.3 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread

#!/usr/bin/perl
#

use strict;
use warnings;
use Net::Telnet;

my $host = '192.168.130.112'; # valid host that is offline
my $port = 10001;

print "DEBUG 1\n";
my $t = new Net::Telnet (Host       => $host,
                         Port       => $port,
                         Timeout    => 1,
#                        -timeout    => 1,
                         Prompt     => '/Escape character is.+\n/',
                         Rs         => ' ',
                         Ors        => '',
                         Binmode    => 1,
                         Telnetmode => 1,
                         Errmode    => 'return');
print "DEBUG 2\n";
if (!$t) {
    die "Failed to create telnet session\n";
}

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In reply to Timeout parameter for Net::Telnet under Windows by SwaJime

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