Flood Ping

The Flood Ping tool is a diagnostic utility in RouterOS designed to send a continuous stream of ICMP echo requests to a target host at the maximum possible rate. It is primarily used to stress-test network stability and measure packet loss or latency under heavy traffic conditions.

Quick Example

To perform a basic load test or verify link stability, you can execute a flood-ping to generate high-frequency ICMP traffic towards a target. The tool provides real-time statistics on packet loss and round-trip time (RTT) to help identify potential network bottlenecks. Use the count parameter to limit the duration of the test or omit it to run the utility indefinitely until manually stopped.

Execute a high-volume ping test to an IPv4 destination:

/tool/flood-ping address=10.155.114.1 count=1000

Execute a flood-ping to an IPv6 destination to verify dual-stack performance:

/tool/flood-ping address=2001:0db8::2 count=500

Example Output:

[admin@MikroTik] > /tool/flood-ping address=10.155.114.1 count=1000
      sent: 1000
  received: 1000
   min-rtt:    0
   avg-rtt:    0
   max-rtt:    1

[admin@MikroTik] > /tool/flood-ping address=2001:0db8::2          
      sent: 500
  received: 500
   min-rtt:   0
   avg-rtt:   0
   max-rtt:   3