Unfortunatly, I do not have control over the remote device. The socket is connected to a remote device server called a UDS-10 by Lantronix, this device is like an Ethernet to Serial brige, buffering output from a connected serial device (in this case a phone switch) and allowing me to collect the output over TCP/IP from port 10001 - but if I send it any data, it will disable logging on the phone switch, and I will have to turn it on again in their software. The phone switch itself is supposed to be connected to a serial printer, but I just connect it to this device, parse the data, and drop it into an Informix database.

Do you think maybe the problem is in the $line = $socket->getline; statement? Should I be using $line = <$socket>; instead?

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Problem Keeping Socket Alive by skamerman
in thread Problem Keeping Socket Alive by skamerman

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