If you ping an address from a Cisco router the ping will be repeated five times, to increase the amount of repeated pings all you need to do is make use of the repeat parameter. The command below will ping 10.10.10.1 1000 times.
R1# ping 10.10.10.1 repeat 1000
ping: Execute ping 10.10.10.1: Address of the host we weill be pinging repeat: Ping should be repeated 1000: Repeat ping 1000 times
R2# ping 10.10.10.1 repeat 1000
Type escape sequence to abort.
Sending 1000, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 10.10.10.1, timeout is 2 seconds:
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Success rate is 100 percent (1000/1000), round-trip min/avg/max = 1/5/8 ms
cisco — Nov 28, 2012