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On 11/25/10 05:54, Bruce Evans wrote:

> Yes, this is normal. It is how ping -f doesn't work -- it doesn't do
> anything
> resembling flooding, except possibly accidentally when 1 Mbps ethernet was
> fast. The ramping up is also accidental.
> ...

Thank you, that was a very informative explanation!

So in case I really do want to flood ping or in some other way test PPS 
throughput, are there any convenient tools for that?