> Not sure if the Net::Ping will give me what I really need...
>
> What you saw is a VERY small part of the program, and all I wanted
> to do was give some realistic status, visually, "realtime".
>
> It is all being logged to a file, and that output MUST be exactly
> like standard PING output. Thus, as I was tasked to keep it
> within "I can read this because this is what I am used to seeing"
> guidelines, I system commanded it out! :)
Not sure if this is quite what you're after, but if you're on
a unix system you can try this. It's not exactly "realtime", but it
will give you a realistic visual status.
$Count = 4; # or any desired number of ICMP requests
print `ping -c$Count domain.tld`;
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