Your first sample works for me: 
    use Net::Telnet;
    my $telnet = Net::Telnet->new(Timeout => 10);
    $telnet->dump_log("dump.log");
    $telnet->open("machine");
    $telnet->login("user", "oass");
    $telnet->close;

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I get a bunch of stuff (the stuff that goes in and out over the telnet connection) in dump.log. Are you actually trying to open a connection? I doubt you'll get anything in your dump_log file if you don't *do anything*. :)

Oh, and your second snippet is wrong. That's not a filehandle; that's a diamond-operator *read* from a filehandle. STDOUT is the filehandle, <STDOUT> is you reading from the filehandle. You want 

    $telnet->dump_log(*STDOUT);

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In reply to RE: ubernewbie question--- Net::Telnet problem by btrott
in thread Net::Telnet problem by daemonchild

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