Why we are not able to ping the system itself when -I option is used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3?

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Issue

  • Why we are not able to ping the system itself when -I option is used in RHEL 7.3?
  • When interface is set for jumbo frames, it cannot ping itself with large packets

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL) 7.3
  • iputils-20121221-7

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