Hi, Apparently, we have some kind of heightened security on our cisco routers. Typically you could do the following:

Telnet Router
<enter password>
enable
<enter password>

 However on our routers you have to do the following. Don't ask me why, it seems really stupid to me.

Telnet Router
<enter password>
login
<enter username>
<enter pasword>
enable
 Anyhow, this is causing me serious problems when trying to use the NET::TELNET::CISCO perl module. Here is a snippet of what I am doing currently: 
sub tftp_to_router
{

#connect a telnet session to the router
my $cisco_session=Net::Telnet::Cisco->new(Host=>$router);

#Login
$cisco_session->login($username,$password);

#Enable
$cisco_session->enable($password);

#ok we are in. Let's do our copy
#tftp the file over
#NONE OF THESE COMMANDS WORK BECAUSE AT THIS POINT, I AM
#CONNECTED TO THE ROUTER, BUT NOT IN ENABLE MODE

$cisco_session->cmd('copy tftp slot0');
$cisco_session->cmd('xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx');
$cisco_session->cmd('Source filename');
$cisco_session->cmd('Destination filename');
    
#Go to the directory on the router containing the startup-config file
$cisco_session->cmd('cd slot0:');
#Erase it
$cisco_session->cmd('erase startup-config');
#Copy the file we just tftp'd over to the startup-config
$cisco_session->cmd('copy source startup-config');
#Copy that file to the slaveslot0: too
$cisco_session->cmd('copy source slaveslot0:');

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I tried adding the following before all the commands and it still did not work. $cisco_session->cmd('login\nusername\npassword'); Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Brian Whyte

In reply to Net::Telnet::Cisco Login Problem by bcwhyte

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