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authorSean Bruno <sbruno@FreeBSD.org>2014-12-28 20:56:03 +0000
committerSean Bruno <sbruno@FreeBSD.org>2014-12-28 20:56:03 +0000
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Correct naming of sysctl pmtud_blackhole_activated_min_mss.
Clarify some statements around PMTUD blackhole detection to make the behavior more clear in the man page. Submitted by: Mikhail <mp@lenta.ru> MFC after: 2 weeks
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=276345
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/tcp.415
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/tcp.4 b/share/man/man4/tcp.4
index 7814a0d5d17a..351e4b4fa7da 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/tcp.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/tcp.4
@@ -521,11 +521,11 @@ This is needed to help with connection establishment
when a broken firewall is in the network path.
.It Va pmtud_blackhole_detection
Turn on automatic path MTU blackhole detection.
-In case of retransmits we will
+In case of retransmits OS will
lower the MSS to check if it's MTU problem.
If current MSS is greater than
-configured value to try, it will be set to it, otherwise, MSS will be set to
-default values
+configured value to try, it will be set to configured value, otherwise,
+MSS will be set to default values
.Po Va net.inet.tcp.mssdflt
and
.Va net.inet.tcp.v6mssdflt
@@ -535,11 +535,12 @@ MSS to try for IPv4 if PMTU blackhole detection is turned on.
.It Va v6pmtud_blackhole_mss
MSS to try for IPv6 if PMTU blackhole detection is turned on.
.It Va pmtud_blackhole_activated
-Number of times the code was activated to attempt a MSS downshift.
-.It Va pmtud_blackhole_min_activated
-Number of times the blackhole MSS was used in an attempt to downshift.
+Number of times configured values were used in an attempt to downshift.
+.It Va pmtud_blackhole_activated_min_mss
+Number of times default MSS was used in an attempt to downshift.
.It Va pmtud_blackhole_failed
-Number of times that we failed to connect after we downshifted the MSS.
+Number of connections for which retransmits continued even after MSS
+downshift.
.El
.Sh ERRORS
A socket operation may fail with one of the following errors returned: