Ping Flood Help

[macair949]

Hi everyone I just have one quick question. When I try to ping my website to test its abilities by ping flooding it on terminal what comes up is "ping: -f flag: Operation not permitted." Is there a way I can fix this? Thank you!

 

[ElectricSheep]

Hi everyone I just have one quick question. When I try to ping my website to test its abilities by ping flooding it on terminal what comes up is "ping: -f flag: Operation not permitted." Is there a way I can fix this? Thank you!

You must be superuser to ping flood. Ping-flooding is very hard on the network, and if you are thinking of pinging out through your ISP do not do this.

 

[DeltaMac]

The man for ping says that the -f flag can only be invoked by the superuser.
So, you have to use sudo to get that to work.
And, as a reminder, the man also says -

This can be very hard on a network and should be used with caution.

(two similar posts, both from Delaware within a minute of each other - means that we're good!)