I've recently been given some new assignments at work that hit on the weakest part of my Perl knowledge - IPC/ RPC type code. I'll be writing codeto communicate w/ routers, switches, etc. to copy configuration files, check device status, etc.

The good part - I get to add some new tools to my belt. I know that I'll be using a lot of IPC::Open3 for the rcp calls, but I'd like to come up with some ways to play with IPC::Open3 before I start writing production code. (I'd also be interested in hearing about other ways to do similar tasks.)

I'm at a bit of a loss to think of ways to test/experiment, though. I think I could use IPC::Open3 to communication with the webserver I have running here on my home box, but that's only one way. ( And, there are other modules better suited to the task.)

I'm almost out of my league with the new assignments, but how else am I going to learn how to do this stuff if I don't actually do it?

BTW - I've read perlipc dozens of times now, but it doesn't really sink in for me until I bang out the code and deal with all the headaches of actually writing functional code.

In reply to Advice: Network code experiments by geektron

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