[aprssig] Perl APRS IS

[Andrew Rich]

I wonder

I am using Net::telnet

Maybe I should be using IO::Socket ?


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Andrew Rich
Airways Technical Officer Grade 4
Surveillance - RADAR ADS-B
Amateur Radio Callsign VK4TEC
email: vk4tec at tech-software.net
web: www.tech-software.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Curt, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>
To: "Andrew Rich" <vk4tec at tech-software.net>; "TAPR APRS Mailing List" 
<aprssig at tapr.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Perl APRS IS


> On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Andrew Rich wrote:
>
>> 3. The script will start, and then run but stay up - ie the telnet 
>> connection has gone stale
>>
>> I am now looking at coding something based on the time and date of the 
>> APRS IS heartbeat every 40 seconds.
>>
>> Ideas on how to manage stale connections ?
>
> Check out this code I did a while back.  The notes I wrote talk
> about solving keepalive problems for sockets so there are probably
> some tricks you can glean from the code.
>
>     ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/a/archer/aprs/aprsd.pl/
>
> That the version I have on my local hard drive is dated 01/22/2002,
> which is newer than what's on the website.  You're welcome to that
> if you need it but I doubt anything major was changed during that
> interval.
>
> -- 
> Curt, WE7U.                         <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer>
>    APRS:  Where it's at!                    <http://www.xastir.org>
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