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Hello!

> I use 'ping -l 100000'

This does not help. Preloading only 100 packets is possible,
the rest simply disappear to blackhole. Actually, you can
increase tx_queue_len on eth0 to a cosmic value sort of
1500000, then it will be able to generate burst of packets
for ~10 seconds.

Alexey