Added the scaffolding for the jitter test. Now just need to perform the proper calculations.

src/benchmarks/network.rs

@@ -25,6 +25,28 @@ pub fn ping_host(address: &str, count: &u16) {
     }
 }
 
+// network jitter test
+pub fn jitter_test(address: &str, count: &u16) {
+    println!("Pinging host {}, {} times to determine network jitter.", address, count);
+
+    // run the ping command
+    let output = process::Command::new("ping")
+        .arg(address)
+        .arg(format!("-c {}", count))
+        .output()
+        .expect("Failed to execute command");
+
+    // check that the command succeeded
+    assert!(output.status.success());
+
+    // grab the ping results from stdout
+    let results_raw = &String::from_utf8_lossy(&output.stdout);
+    let results = text::format::trim_output(results_raw, 4);
+    for line in results {
+        println!("{}", line);
+    }
+}
+
 // timed file copy test to guage bandwidth speeds
 pub fn bandwidth_test(download: &str, output: &str) {
     println!("Testing network bandwidth by downloading {}.", download);