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authorJiri Popelka <jpopelka@redhat.com>2012-01-13 15:50:55 +0100
committerBernd Eckenfels <bernd@eckenfels.net>2012-01-13 20:01:49 +0000
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route(8): note that 'route mss' actually sets MTU (RHBZ#680837)
-rw-r--r--man/en_US/route.89
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/man/en_US/route.8 b/man/en_US/route.8
index b542345..c4f8025 100644
--- a/man/en_US/route.8
+++ b/man/en_US/route.8
@@ -138,12 +138,9 @@ compatibility hack.
set the metric field in the routing table (used by routing daemons) to M.
.TP
.B mss M
-set the TCP Maximum Segment Size (MSS) for connections over this route
-to M bytes.
-The default is the device MTU minus headers, or a lower MTU when path mtu
-discovery occurred. This setting can be used to force smaller TCP packets on the
-other end when path mtu discovery does not work (usually because of
-misconfigured firewalls that block ICMP Fragmentation Needed)
+sets MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) of the route to M bytes.
+Note that the current implementation of the route command does not allow
+the option to set the Maximum Segment Size (MSS).
.TP
.B window W
set the TCP window size for connections over this route to W