#1 ping related issues

[asher yanich]

ping across OSes does not have standard command line
options or output.

Suggestions:1. Net::Ping::External - Perl module which
uses systems external ping. It has cases for all OS's.
ALthough I had to tweak the module to work correctly
for FreeBSD.

2. Use an external shell script I(posted to mailing
list) which does a uname, determines architecture, and
runs ther proper ping command. Keeps us from relying
upon another perl module.