hping is nice for sending a bunch of traffic just to test certain reactions of remote machines etc.. Here are some cool ways to use it and some useful links on more info.

Start a flood of icmp packets with a rand src:

hping 16.0.24.2 –rand-source –flood –icmp -V

 Do 500pps with just one src: 
hping 16.0.24.2 -i u2000 –icmp -V


Here, we use the -i u2000 which tells hping to send a packet every 2000us which is 500 packets per second. You can figure out what this value should be by doing “1e+6/pps”


Through the –flood option, I can get around 400kpps out of a 10G link (with those icmp packets).


Some linkage:


http://www.rationallyparanoid.com/articles/hping.html


http://www.radarhack.com/tutorial/hping2.pdf
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