Hi, I am a newbie at perl script and I was wondering if perl can help me solve my problem. I want to write a script to help me to reproduce a bug on SNMP module on a network switch. Basically the script will have a loop that will call some snmp utility to set some MIB value on a network switch, after the set operation returns, verify the operation by retrieving the value just set from the network switch through a snmp get operation. Then loop back to do the next set operation. I also need the ability to timeout the operation if we dont hear anything from the network switch through the snmp set/get operation for a certain time (say 30 seconds). Can perl do this easily? Anybody can point me to some similar scrip if there exists any or point me to some quick start page on how to code this little script? Thanks a lot! snowbb

In reply to can perl do this? by snowbb

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