This should be easy but for the life of me I can't get split to work the way I expect / want it to. Here is the deal, this should ping an address 4 times and then strip out the packet loss and avg time. Here is the code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
#tnks to Willy @ http://www.willy.com/Scripps/mrtg-data.html for most 
+all of this
$ping_str = `/bin/ping -c4 dslreports.com`;

# keep only the packets lost
$loss = (split(/\,/,$ping_str))[2];
# now $loss looks like " 0%";

# keep only the avg time
$avg = (split(/\//,$ping_str))[4];
# now $avg looks like "114.337";

# since we are looking for a positive integer we now round
$avg = int($avg);

# now return the values along with 2 zero lines.
print "$loss\n";
print "$avg\n";
print "0\n";
print "0\n";

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The avg time returns just fine (except I do not actually know how to round, but that is not such a big deal :-) ). My problem comes in grabbing the number of lost packets. I get too much data. Perhaps there is a better way to do this anyway. Please toss some knowledge out of the monastery windows to a peasant below. :-) Thanks James

In reply to MRTG script should be easy by jalspach

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