Hello monks,

I'm trying to help out a friend who needs a couple of scripts for something that he's doing at work. He asked me for help. Unfortunately, I only know perl well enough to read it. Kind-of. Sort-of. Ok, maybe a little bit. :-) Someone told me that the people at this website are friendly and helpful, and that sounds like what I need at the moment! *grin*

So, here's what I need. As mentioned, two different scripts are needed:

Script 1)

Ping a range of IPs
display the ones that responded sorted by response time......

Script 2)

traceroute a specific IP address
disply the hop that has the longest latency......


The scripts do need to be in perl (there are People Who Want It In Perl involved :) ), so if anyone here could assist me by providing me with these (and maybe an explanation of how they're doing what they're doing, if you feel like it - I *would* like to learn more about perl), you would make me one really happy guy! :-) Thanks!

Oh, and if it matters, this will be used on a Linux system.

--Dave

In reply to Need a couple of scripts - help? by dguntner

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