$ ping -c8 www.perlmonks.net
PING perlmonks.com (209.197.123.153): 56 data bytes
...
--- perlmonks.com ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 8 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 230.067/241.473/259.663/13.811 ms