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.\" From: @(#)tcp.4 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd November 8, 2013
+.Dd October 13, 2014
.Dt TCP 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -516,8 +516,30 @@ ECN allows a TCP sender to reduce the transmission rate in order to
avoid packet drops.
.It Va ecn.maxretries
Number of retries (SYN or SYN/ACK retransmits) before disabling ECN on a
-specific connection. This is needed to help with connection establishment
+specific connection.
+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
+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
+.Po Va net.inet.tcp.mssdflt
+and
+.Va net.inet.tcp.v6mssdflt
+.Pc .
+.It Va pmtud_blackhole_mss
+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.
+.It Va pmtud_blackhole_failed
+Number of times that we failed to connect after we downshifted the MSS.
.El
.Sh ERRORS
A socket operation may fail with one of the following errors returned:
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