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  • Flood ping app?

    From David Lesher@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, February 24, 2026 16:06:47
    I'm seeking an app for flood ping testing. Is there anything
    in the Play Store I should use?

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    & no one will talk to a host that's close..........................
    Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
    is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433

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  • From David Lesher@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, February 24, 2026 18:03:50
    Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> writes:


    I'm seeking an app for flood ping testing. Is there anything
    in the Play Store I should use?

    Not a flood ping as such, but I use an app called "ping" by Hamed Afshar >which does allow a ping to run indefinitely. I suspect you'd need to be >rooted to do it from a shell ...


    I need flood ping to stress-test the local cabling. I can do it trivially
    with a *nix laptop:

    ping -f

    Outputs packets as fast as they come back or
    one hundred times per second, whichever is more. For every
    ECHO_REQUEST sent a period ``.'' is printed, while for every
    ECHO_REPLY received a backspace is printed.


    But I'd rather use my phone and a USB-C -> RJ45 adapter.

    --
    A host is a host from coast to coast...............wb8foz@panix.com
    & no one will talk to a host that's close..........................
    Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
    is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433

    --- PyGate Linux v1.5.12
    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Arno Welzel@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, February 25, 2026 08:46:53
    Andy Burns, 2026-02-24 19:16:

    David Lesher wrote:

    I need flood ping to stress-test the local cabling. I can do it trivially
    with a *nix laptop:
    On my fedora box, unless I'm root I'm rate-limited

    Well - becoming root on a Fedora box is possible.


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    Arno Welzel
    https://arnowelzel.de

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