flood-ping
tool/flood-ping
Conditions: !smips
Type: Command
Sends a series of ICMP echo requests to one host and shows only the totals. Not available on SMIPS devices. Needs the traffic-gen device-mode feature; without it the command fails with failure: not allowed by device-mode. For examples, see Flood Ping.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| address | alt { ipv6: ip6Addr , ip: ipAddr } | IPv4 or IPv6 address of the host to ping. |
| count | num | Number of requests to send, 0..1000. |
| size | num | Size of each request, 10..1500. |
| timeout | time | How long to wait for each reply, 00:00:00.010..00:00:05 (10 ms to 5 s). |
| Read-only Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| sent | num | Number of requests sent. |
| received | num | Number of replies received. The difference from sent is the packet loss. |
| min-rtt | time | Shortest round-trip time of the run. |
| avg-rtt | time | Average round-trip time of the run. |
| max-rtt | time | Longest round-trip time of the run. |