I am using Net::SSH::Expect to connect to a list of access points.

In some cases the connection dies and my script gets interrupted. I want the script to skip the AP but continue with the following ones, but the script dies

my $sshap = Net::SSH::Expect->new (
 host       => $apip,
 user       => 'Cisco', 
 ssh_option => '-o StrictHostKeyChecking=no', 
 raw_pty    => 1,
 timeout     => 5
);

if($sshap->run_ssh()){
    $sshap->waitfor ('Password:', 7) or warn "SSH problem: 'Password' 
+not found after 7 second";
    $sshap->send    ('Cisco');
    $sshap->waitfor ("$ap\>", 3) or warn "SSH problem: $ap\> not found
+ after 3 second";
    $sshap->send    ('en');
    $sshap->waitfor ('Password:', 3) or warn "SSH problem: 'EN Passwor
+d' not found after 3 second";
    $sshap->send    ('Cisco');
    $sshap->waitfor ("$ap\#", 3) or warn "SSH problem: $ap\# not found
+ after 3 second";
    $sshap->send    ('show ip interface brief');
    while (defined ($line = $sshap->read_line()) ) {
        print "$line\n"
    }
    $sshap->send('exit');
    $sshap->close();
        
} else {
    print     "$apname     Could not open SSH\n";
}

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I found that I can handle that by using eval{}

Is that the best approach?

it seems that is running much slower when I use eval.

In reply to Handling Exceptions on Net::SSH::Expect by pablor

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