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Improve route(8) man page saying that 'route mss' actually sets MTU (#671321)

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Jiri Popelka 2011-01-21 12:00:01 +01:00
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net-tools-1.60-man.patch
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@ -145,14 +145,16 @@ diff -up net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/netstat.8.man net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/netstat
.SS "\-F"
diff -up net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/route.8.man net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/route.8
--- net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/route.8.man 2000-05-21 20:59:03.000000000 +0200
+++ net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/route.8 2010-12-20 13:17:20.000000000 +0100
@@ -140,9 +140,10 @@ set the metric field in the routing tabl
+++ net-tools-1.60/man/en_US/route.8 2011-01-21 11:53:59.000000000 +0100
@@ -139,10 +139,11 @@ set the metric field in the routing tabl
.TP
.B mss M
set the TCP Maximum Segment Size (MSS) for connections over this route
to M bytes.
-to M bytes.
-The default is the device MTU minus headers, or a lower MTU when path mtu
-discovery occured. This setting can be used to force smaller TCP packets on the
-other end when path mtu discovery does not work (usually because of
+to M bytes. The current implementation of route command sets MTU instead of MSS!
+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

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net-tools.spec
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@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
Summary: Basic networking tools
Name: net-tools
Version: 1.60
Release: 112%{?dist}
Release: 113%{?dist}
License: GPL+
Group: System Environment/Base
URL: http://net-tools.berlios.de/
@ -331,6 +331,9 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot}
%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/ethers
%changelog
* Fri Jan 21 2011 Jiri Popelka <jpopelka@redhat.com> - 1.60-113
- Improve route(8) man page saying that 'route mss' actually sets MTU (#671321)
* Mon Jan 03 2011 Jiri Popelka <jpopelka@redhat.com> - 1.60-112
- Fix the handling of some of the HAVE_* flags ifdef vs if. (BerliOS #17812)