Re: What did I miss in my test condition?

[DrHyde]

in reply to What did I miss in my test condition?

Try pinging the radio to see if it's alive before making the SNMP query?

$ ping -c 3 -W 1 $dead_host >/dev/null 2>&1
$ echo $?
1
$ ping -c 3 -W 1 $live_host >/dev/null 2>&1
$ echo $?
0

Converting this to perl should be trivial.