karavelov - This is a walled-off garden test lab, so passwords and security for this are default. I have placed on the vty lines privilege level 15 - no need for "enable". I had tried the 'waitfor' with the pound sign, but if you read the docs on Net::Telnet::Cisco, that is a prompt that is already recognized, and default is 'always_waitfor_prompt'. So I don't see how these additions would work. My use of the 'sleep 20' is at the very least reliable and repeatable.

Regards,
Scott