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Message-ID: <20131214034213.GD7332@order.stressinduktion.org> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 04:42:13 +0100 From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org> To: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH net] ipv4: improve documentation of ip_no_pmtu_disc Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org> --- Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 12ba2cd..f76d177 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -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 -- 1.8.3.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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