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| author | Jiri Popelka <jpopelka@redhat.com> | 2012-01-13 15:50:55 +0100 |
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| committer | Bernd Eckenfels <bernd@eckenfels.net> | 2012-01-13 20:01:49 +0000 |
| commit | 653fd7cdddb2a58cf1808e033fbf8c209dc2b0c9 (patch) | |
| tree | 853832ba83a2cb5a24f7f2cefae2a49b33f0a404 | |
| parent | a4cbb7714d293562caf9edad49e46913bff8e173 (diff) | |
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route(8): note that 'route mss' actually sets MTU (RHBZ#680837)
| -rw-r--r-- | man/en_US/route.8 | 9 |
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 |