Hi vinoth.ree,

I tried with udp and I still get a timeout.

FloydATC is correct in supposing that I didn't use ICMP to avoid the need to be root.

I'm thinking of going down the direct call route. What do you think?

Like this 


my $p = `ping -c 1 www.google.com | grep -i "bytes.*ms"`

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And then I either get: 

64 bytes from lhr14s21-in-f16.1e100.net (173.194.34.144): icmp_seq=1 t
+tl=55 time=549 ms

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or .. 


ping: unknown host www.google.com

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There is a slight delay. But it seems reliable. Any views?

Regards

Steve

In reply to Re^2: Issues with network connectivity and Net::Ping by Steve_BZ
in thread Issues with network connectivity and Net::Ping by Steve_BZ

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