Hello folks,…
Prolog I can handle. Networking I struggle with (I have just found)
I did try and find solutions and could see a number of client/server{mainly} examples, but after 2 days, im pushing the help button
Objective:
I would like to login to a number of my network devices to receive and send data/commands.
Ideally I will create simple output lines and parse with DCG pio to build information structures to parse.
Also I have tried to see if I can get access some data via snmp, but again fighting the lack of knowledge,
so backtracked to the main problem rather then red herrings.
Problem(s)
I could connect to my network device, but found that it was saying (via Putty) ‘Username :’
sadly there was no line feed so struggled to simpy get a line when in prolog.
When connecting successfully? and getting characters I found the values were not what I was expecting,
having spent ages looking at utf8, text modes etc, I struggle to get anywhere 
code and output below (just enough to get me to the proplem)
go :-create_client(‘10.12.13.14’, 23).
create_client(Host, Port) :-
tcp_socket(Socket),
tcp_connect(Socket, Host:Port),
tcp_open_socket(Socket, In, _Out),
repeat,
get_byte(In, CODE),
write(CODE),nl,
fail.
results…
?- go.
255
253
24
255
253
32
255
253
35
255
253
39
However when using ssh connectivity to the same device, could see a header but then nothing as it most likley went off to the sshland.
So another red herring came (ssh connectivity)
I did also spend some time looking at snmp systems and found some usefull data in there, but really want a simple of interrogating devices
parsing looks a doddle.
Ideal World
1 - to connect to Telenet and have a simple chat (read_line(s) and respond )
2 - as (1) but ssh, as i dont use telnet on my devices
3 - Communicate to devices using snmp protool to get data back for parsing.
Conclusion
I have learnt lots about prolog networking tcp/udp, snmp and ssh
but sadly the number of permuations for a beginner in that field has outwhitted me
Anyone out there that can help ?
Gary