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ipv4: improve documentation of ip_no_pmtu_disc
authorHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Sat, 14 Dec 2013 03:42:13 +0000 (04:42 +0100)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 17 Dec 2013 20:20:15 +0000 (15:20 -0500)
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt

index 3c12d9a7ed00391d5c3f49ef80d7b1ae9abc40fe..8a984e994e61616a9dba0a4f425a5b4371b3ae99 100644 (file)
@@ -16,8 +16,12 @@ ip_default_ttl - INTEGER
        Default: 64 (as recommended by RFC1700)
 
 ip_no_pmtu_disc - BOOLEAN
-       Disable Path MTU Discovery.
-       default FALSE
+       Disable Path MTU Discovery. If enabled and a
+       fragmentation-required ICMP is received, the PMTU to this
+       destination will be set to min_pmtu (see below). You will need
+       to raise min_pmtu to the smallest interface MTU on your system
+       manually if you want to avoid locally generated fragments.
+       Default: FALSE
 
 min_pmtu - INTEGER
        default 552 - minimum discovered Path MTU