AFAIK, ping is a setuid binary (since it needs raw socket, that is a privileged operation) so a program that implements ping by itself would need to do the same (or it would work for root).
I assumed you were talking about windows until:
> AFAIK, ping is a setuid binary
Which unfortunately means you’ve partly helped make the GP’s point for them. Under Linux, the command you’re thinking of is ifconfig, which has long been deprecated and doesn’t ship by default anymore in newer distributions.
Times change, tools move on.
How to check:
$ getcap $(which ping)
/usr/bin/ping = cap_net_raw+ep
https://blog.container-solutions.com/linux-capabilities-in-p...
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 64424 Jun 28 2019 /bin/ping-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 76744 Aug 23 15:08 /bin/ping
% getcap /bin/ping
/bin/ping = cap_net_raw+ep