Sometime after I wrote my script, my boss in his infinite wisdom decided to hack the sh*t out of my code and render it unreconizable and unreadable. Otherwise I would have posted sniglets of it here.

Here is what I remember of what I did when I wrote my login routine:

• First off I did not use the login method supplied by Net::Telnet or Net::Telnet::Cisco.
• Instead I used the print -- waitfor combination and decided what to do next based on ($match,$prematch)
• Since there are multiple passwords in our environmet for the network elemenets on our network. To get around that issue I used my own form of try<->catch type of logic.

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Peter L. Berghold	Brewer of Belgian Ales
Peter@Berghold.Net	www.berghold.net
Unix Professional

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