Hi! I'm new to Perl, and one of my assignments is to write a script that produces the same output as MS-DOS's Tracert command and functions similarly, i.e. by sending ICMP Echo Requests with increasing Time-To-Live values to the specified destination and capturing the replies from the intermediate hosts. I tried achieving that with the Net::Ping module, defining the used protocol as ICMP and setting the TTL while constructing the object, but the TTL values I set didn't seem to affect anything at all, even when I deliberately gave them invalid values. I also couldn't figure how to get the IP of the host returning the reply. I'd be glad for some help. Thanks in advance!

In reply to Simulating traceroute using the Ping module by Xenos

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