Dear Monks, Still playing with sockets here, and I have a working model within a script that generates a forked server and everything works swimmingly. Now, I'd like to break this up into some library files so I can share the code, I'm not sure about putting this as OO yet as what I intend to be able to reuse this for won't work as OO without a lot of directory and script redesign, which I can do later on as a larger project. My problem is being encountered in making the server and running IO::Socket::Net->new to generate the server; all the values are being sent correctly but somehow Protocol is being lost. Running in the debugger I get the following: 
IO::Socket::socket(/usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/sun4-solaris-64int/IO/Socket.p
+m:78):
78:         my($sock,$domain,$type,$protocol) = @_;
  DB<64>
IO::Socket::socket(/usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/sun4-solaris-64int/IO/Socket.p
+m:80):
80:         socket($sock,$domain,$type,$protocol) or
81:             return undef;
  DB<64> x $sock
0  IO::Socket::INET=GLOB(0x4ea3bc)
   -> *Symbol::GEN0
  DB<65> x $domain
0  2
  DB<66> x $type
0  'SOCK_STREAM'
  DB<67> x $protocol
0  6
  DB<68>
IO::Socket::INET::_error(../Perl/IO/Socket/INET.pm:69):
69:         my $sock = shift;
  DB<68>
IO::Socket::INET::_error(../Perl/IO/Socket/INET.pm:70):
70:         local($!);
  DB<68> x $sock
0  IO::Socket::INET=GLOB(0x4ea3bc)
   -> *Symbol::GEN0
  DB<69> x $!
0  'Protocol not supported'

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Checking the value of $protocol in the debugger shows its there when socket() is being called in socket.pm; but maybe its something I am not familiar with that could be generating the error? Any advice is welcome, I'd like to see what this is all about and get it working. Thanks a lot!

In reply to Socket.pm returning Protocol not supported by gokuraku

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