[Pdx-pm] IO::Socket::INET wakeup call

[Roderick A. Anderson]

Lisa Kachold wrote:
> Roderick,
> 
> This depends entirely on where in the OSI stack your connection is failing.
> 
> If you are connecting on either side through a 802.11b/g firewall 
> Netgear or Linksys device, your connection might actually be failing for 
> a number of reasons:

Thanks Lisa.

The two systems are on an internal switch.  After sending the message 
out yesterday I got thinking it might be a Windows NIC driver issue. 
I'll be checking on the WAKE on LAN settings and/or the-go-to-sleep-when 
-no-activity is set.

I'm also going to go the cheap route and ping the system before making 
an IO connection attempt.


Again thanks for the thoughts and links.


Rod
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> */"Roderick A. Anderson" <raanders at acm.org>/* wrote:
> 
>     I'm connecting to a service running on a WinXP system using
>     IO::Socket::INET and for the most part it has been great. Recently
>     though I've noticed that after a long-ish period of no activity that my
>     initial connect fails. I'm running in debug mode so a simple restart of
>     the script and the connection works fine. When this runs in production
>     mode I need it to not fail. Of course I can loop through several tries
>     and exit when it connects or really errors out but this seems inelegant.
> 
>     I'm sure this is some stupid Windows thing where the network
>     connection is sleeping and can't wake up fast enough and will look at
>     the device, network, TCP/IP settings but that will not work when I
>     don't
>     control the Windows box.
> 
>     Before getting lost ( again ) in the IO::Socket, IO::Handle, IO::*
>     documentation world I'm trying for a cheap answer. Is there a generic
>     method to try and wake a TCP/IP connection? Sort of "Hello ... McFly!"
> 
> 
>     TIA,
>     Rod
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