pping already exists too. It’s a bit of a crowded market…
• 2ping <https://www.finnie.org/software/2ping/>
• fping <https://www.fping.org/>
• hping <http://www.hping.org/>
• nping <https://nmap.org/>
• oping <https://noping.cc/documentation/oping/>
There’s also qping, tping and rping, but they are not implementing ping functionality, but are tools for checking the status of specific remote services.
apt-file search --regexp 'bin/.ping'
apt-file search --regexp 'bin/[^/]*ping$'
• smokeping <https://smokeping.org/>