Apparently, I do need to run this as administrator and do an icmp ping. Worked fine once I did that. I made the mistake of assuming that since I was told that UDP pings on our boxes were okay, that they were okay :(

Thanks for the help! I'll break out a can of ++ when my new shipment comes in tomorrow.

Ovid makes a note to always test assumptions.

Cheers,
Ovid

Update: Anyone know why the ping request works from a command line on NT and not from a Perl script? The NT documentation states that NT's ping uses icmp.

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In reply to (Ovid) Re: Net::Ping troubles by Ovid
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