Hello Netbeginner,

be aware that even when we use extended ping we use a 1 packet window:

that is the sender sends out icmp request n, waits up to 2 seconds to receive ICMP reply related to request and only after one of the two events ICMP request n+1 is sent.

The effective loading on the link under test can be found taking in account the statistics about the RTT round trip time of packets.

With no losses:

RTT includes the time for the ICMP request n to be sent (a timestamp is present in the packet) and the time at which the ICMP reply n is received at sender.

You could at the average RTT that is the second time in results

so the load on link can be see as:

(packet size * bits / byte  ) / (RTT/2)

example 1000 bytes with average RTT 22 msec

(1000*8) / (11 10^-3) = 727723 bps

but if there are losses, missing packets count as 2 seconds each and of course load on link is lowered by the fact that sender waits 2 seconds before going to next ICMP request.

Now, if you increase the packet size also the average RTT will increase.

Edit:

more practical approach:

a "poor man" traffic generator, if the objective is to load the link, is made by using very big  packets like 10000 bytes.

These packets cannot travel on the link if the MTU is 1500 bytes, so each ping ICMP request becomes a small burst of fragments of the original packet  that travel from sender to receiver and then back from receiver to sender.

The difference in load is effective

Hope to  help

Giuseppe