This was to prime caches etc. We looked to see whether any of these pings were successful. We repeated the measurements with 1400 byte packets. The table below shows some of the summary statistics of the measurements. Min, Avg, Max refer to the minimum, average and maximum RTT for the responding hosts.
Loss refers to the percentage packet loss.
This is to be expected since the flood pings will cause more queuing. The generally positive asymmetry indicates that there is a greater probability of losing packets when using flood pings, again this is to be expected from queueing and overflows. There was little difference in the reordering when one moved from 56byte to 1400byte packets. For the hosts that exhibited reordering on average 8 of the 50 packets were identified as being out of order. The hosts were in 72 different countries, so we looked at the re-ordering by region.