Commit 653fd7cd authored by Jiri Popelka's avatar Jiri Popelka Committed by Bernd Eckenfels

route(8): note that 'route mss' actually sets MTU (RHBZ#680837)

parent a4cbb771
......@@ -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
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