Ping flood? Whats the point?

[billp () ROCKETCASH COM (Bill Pennington)]

A few moments ago my firewall logs started filling up with messages
below. Basiclly ICMP Echos for all over the place. I have not had a lot
of time to research but it seems like a fairly random IP address
distribution and the few that I looked up seemed to originate from .kr
and .ar
should I assume that all these boxes have been comprimised? Should I
attempt to contact all the owners? What is the attacker trying to
accomplish? Below is a small portion of the log file.

TIA

Feb  1 13:52:21   Deny inbound icmp src outside:193.65.199.3 dst <>:rcgw
(type 8, code 0)
Feb  1 13:52:21 Deny inbound icmp src outside:193.71.17.3 dst <>:rcgw
(type 8, code 0)
Feb  1 13:52:21Deny inbound icmp src outside:194.90.246.171 dst <>:rcgw
(type 8, code 0)
Feb  1 13:52:21 Deny inbound icmp src outside:196.7.87.3 dst <>:rcgw
(type 8, code 0)
Feb  1 13:52:21 Deny inbound icmp src outside:212.36.169.97 dst <>:rcgw
(type 8, code 0)
Feb  1 13:52:21 Deny inbound icmp src outside:216.52.142.3 dst <>:rcgw
(type 8, code 0)
Feb  1 13:52:21 Deny inbound icmp src outside:212.78.162.3 dst <>:rcgw
(type 8, code 0)
Feb  1 13:52:21 Deny inbound icmp src outside:216.52.58.2 dst <>:rcgw
(type 8, code 0)
Feb  1 13:52:21 Deny inbound icmp src outside:195.8.99.162 dst <>:rcgw
(type 8, code 0)
Feb  1 13:52:21 Deny inbound icmp src outside:140.239.162.2 dst <>:rcgw
(type 8, code 0)
Feb  1 13:52:21Deny inbound icmp src outside:212.35.98.3 dst <>:rcgw
(type 8, code 0)
Feb  1 13:52:21 Deny inbound icmp src outside:216.52.239.2 dst <>:rcgw
(type 8, code 0)
Feb  1 13:52:21Deny inbound icmp src outside:212.121.130.40 dst <>:rcgw
(type 8, code 0)


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Bill Pennington
IT Manager
Rocketcash
billp () rocketcash com
http://www.rocketcash.com