[networking-guide] master: MTU default is 1500 regardless of layer 3 (6deaee7)

stephenw at fedoraproject.org stephenw at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jul 14 22:01:53 UTC 2014


Repository : http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/docs/networking-guide.git

On branch  : master

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commit 6deaee76bb8c599ebf9e1a07bb6c8f59333288a2
Author: Stephen Wadeley <swadeley at redhat.com>
Date:   Tue Jul 15 00:01:27 2014 +0200

    MTU default is 1500 regardless of layer 3


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 en-US/Configure_Networking.xml |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/en-US/Configure_Networking.xml b/en-US/Configure_Networking.xml
index b5c29e0..70f9404 100644
--- a/en-US/Configure_Networking.xml
+++ b/en-US/Configure_Networking.xml
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ To restrict a connections and networking, there are two options which can be use
         </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>
-            <guilabel>MTU</guilabel> — If required, enter a <firstterm>specific maximum transmission unit</firstterm> (<acronym>MTU</acronym>) to use. The MTU value represents the size in bytes of the largest packet that the connection will use to transmit. This value defaults to <constant>1500</constant> when using <systemitem class="protocol">IPv4</systemitem>, or a variable number <constant>1280</constant> or higher for <systemitem class="protocol">IPv6</systemitem>, and does not generally need to be specified or changed.
+            <guilabel>MTU</guilabel> — If required, enter a specific <firstterm>maximum transmission unit</firstterm> (<acronym>MTU</acronym>) to use. The MTU value represents the size in bytes of the largest packet that the link-layer will transmit. This value defaults to <constant>1500</constant> and does not generally need to be specified or changed.
             </para>
         </listitem>
          <listitem>



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