I have a 155 routers that I need to verify are connected to the WAN. I do not relish the idea of having to manually ping from a command line each one. I only need to know if the device is reachable. By using the example from "blueScreen" I was able to ,finally, run the script. I am a budding network analyst. I can see perl quickly becoming a valued tool in my growing toolbox.

Thank you all for the help.