I've seen telnet take a while to respond before login if there are no DNS resolvers programmed in the unit.
Just curious, but have you thought about using the API? http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=22744 -- Blake Covarrubias On Jun 30, 2010, at 11:16, "Justin Marshall" <just...@pdmnet.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to write a simple perl script to automate things on our > network. I'm using Net::Telnet and (in this case) i would like it just > to disable ports 2-5 & re-enable them. The script does what i would > like, but i could literally do it manually much quicker. The other > devices i've used Net::Telnet on in the past seem to have no issues, > only on Mikrotik's. From what i can tell it's taking almost 6-8 seconds > to logon to each device ... It takes that long before i see it disable > them... > > #!/usr/bin/perl > use Net::Telnet; > @Hosts[0] = '10.10.10.2'; > @Hosts[1] = '10.10.10.3'; > @Hosts[2] = '10.10.10.4'; > my $mt = new Net::Telnet; > my $prompt = "/.*> /"; > $username = "admin"; > $password = ""; > foreach $host(@Hosts) { > $mt->input_log("log.txt"); > print "Opening Host".$host."\n"; > $mt->open(Host=>$host); > $mt->login($username,$password); > $mt->cmd('/interface disable ether2'); > $mt->cmd('/interface disable ether3'); > $mt->cmd('/interface disable ether4'); > $mt->cmd('/interface disable ether5'); > sleep 1; > $mt->cmd('/interface enable ether2'); > $mt->cmd('/interface enable ether3'); > $mt->cmd('/interface enable ether4'); > $mt->cmd('/interface enable ether5'); > $mt->close; > } > > I've tried changing out 'cmd' with 'print'. Tried using 'waitfor', > 'prompt' and even manually logging in with 'waitfor('/password:.*$/i') > ..etc. > > Is there anything that I may do to speed this up, or am I just missing > something? > > Thanks, > Justin > just...@pdmnet.net > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://www.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20100630/a6a9b6ce/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > Mikrotik mailing list > Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
