The existing version of inetutils-ping, if no "pattern" (-p option) is
specified, pads the ping packet with a sequence of bytes of ascending
value.

I suggest that this function could instead be fittingly fulfilled by
the use of the following sequence instead:

47 4e 55 20 54 65 72 72 79 20 50 72 61 74 63 68 65 74 74 20

See "Going Postal" for further information.

A patch is supplied.