Most of us see PerlMonks as a place to exchange information and pass on experience to bring others up to speed with Perl. Although a huge amount of code is written in answer to questions, there is a strong emphasis on helping solve problems through enlightenment rather than simply providing a canned solution.

If you are a programmer then the appropriate first question is not "Do this for me", but "How might I go about this?" or "What tools would help with this?" or (even better) "I tried this, but I got stuck on that. What have I done wrong?". And the first step preceeds the first question to the monks - search for answers yourself. You've been given a few places to look already (see, we are friendly and helpful).

In particular, Super Search is indeed a good tool for seeking information here. A search on response time ping ip turns up Ping multiple hosts (fork implementation) among other nodes (a little winnowing is required). A search on traceroute turns up Timing out a traceroute. Those are large leg ups in your code quest and, hey look, someone else has written it for you already! Now tell me, were those two searches too hard? The search key words were pulled straight out of your problem descriptions.

Welcome to the monastery by the way. If you stick around just a little while pretty likely you will find us friendly and helpful. ;)