[net-tools] Improve route(8) man page saying that 'route mss' actually sets MTU (#671321)

Jiří Popelka jpopelka at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jan 21 11:01:44 UTC 2011


commit a03b4bf68c3721b8410ad698d5835d081432d9ef
Author: Jiri Popelka <jpopelka at redhat.com>
Date:   Fri Jan 21 12:00:01 2011 +0100

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

 net-tools-1.60-man.patch |    8 +++++---
 net-tools.spec           |    5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/net-tools-1.60-man.patch b/net-tools-1.60-man.patch
index 0a63521..d01c62a 100644
--- a/net-tools-1.60-man.patch
+++ b/net-tools-1.60-man.patch
@@ -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
diff --git a/net-tools.spec b/net-tools.spec
index 25b9602..284e6be 100644
--- a/net-tools.spec
+++ b/net-tools.spec
@@ -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 at 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 at redhat.com> - 1.60-112
 - Fix the handling of some of the HAVE_* flags ifdef vs if. (BerliOS #17812)
 


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