telnet problem with PHP

[_andrea.l]

I'm writing a little script for reading information from a router by telnet.
I have a problem

How give a comand and get the answer more times?
I means:
[...]
$usenet = fsockopen($cfgServer, $cfgPort, &$errno, &$errstr, $cfgTimeOut);
[...]
fwrite ($usenet, "show interface description\r\n\n");
[...]
while (!feof($usenet))
{
$r1=fgets($usenet, 1000)."<BR>\n";
}
The program don't exit from while...
.... because the telnet don't give feof.
Hoh can I do?

Thank you in advance,
Andrea.

[Andy Hassall]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 23:50:22 +0100, "_andrea.l"
<an******************@libero.it> wrote:

I'm writing a little script for reading information from a router by telnet.
I have a problem

How give a comand and get the answer more times?
I means:

[...]
$usenet = fsockopen($cfgServer, $cfgPort, &$errno, &$errstr, $cfgTimeOut);
[...]
fwrite ($usenet, "show interface description\r\n\n");
[...]
while (!feof($usenet))
{
$r1=fgets($usenet, 1000)."<BR>\n";
}
The program don't exit from while...
... because the telnet don't give feof.

Are you expecting the device to drop the connection after one command? Or do
you need to send some sort of "exit" command after the "show interface
description" command?

Otherwise you need to find some sort of unique text that indicates the end of
the output, and use that to stop your while loop.

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[Pedro Graca]

_andrea.l wrote:

I'm writing a little script for reading information from a router by telnet.
I have a problem

How give a comand and get the answer more times? <snip> The program don't exit from while...
... because the telnet don't give feof.
Hoh can I do?

When you telnet to the router 'by hand', how do you know the router has
finished the answer and is ready for more?

You have to make your script follow the same rules.
A long time ago I did a script that telnets to a POP3 server.

Have a look:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....ffcd16c5b5f02f
and modify to your taste.

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