A very basic attempt to gauge latency between two hosts using Net::Ping and Time::HiRes. I'm not all that confident of its accuracy. Although, it seems to report timings fairly similar to my Linux ping utility. I created this for testing, I ended up using something like it in a module. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

use Net::Ping;
use Time::HiRes qw(tv_interval gettimeofday);
$|++;

my($host) = shift() || die("Usage: $0 <host.somewhere.com>\n");

my($ping) = Net::Ping->new('icmp');

while (1) {
    my($timeStart) = [gettimeofday()];
    if ($ping->ping($host, 2)) {
        my($timeElapsed) = tv_interval($timeStart, [gettimeofday()]);
        printf("%s: %.3f msec\n", $host, $timeElapsed * 1000);
    } else {
        my($timeElapsed) = tv_interval($timeStart, [gettimeofday()]);
        printf("%s failed: %.3f\n", $host, $timeElapsed * 1000);
    }
    sleep(1);
}

$ping->close();

exit();

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In reply to Basic latency timing using Net::Ping and Time::HiRes by staunch

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