$ ping -c8 www.perlmonks.org
PING perlmonks.org (66.39.54.27): 56 data bytes
...
--- perlmonks.org ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 8 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 232.229/243.981/262.892/14.298 ms