net: change tcp_syn_retries documentation

[mirror_ubuntu-artful-kernel.git] / Documentation / networking / ip-sysctl.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index ceb44a095a27ba98804442c1f7aa91ed616b7d42..73b36d7c7b0d67309cce7bf0bd8a46f0c6ee7ea1 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ tcp_fastopen - INTEGER
 
 tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER
        Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt
-       will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value
+       will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 127. Default value
        is 6, which corresponds to 63seconds till the last retransmission
        with the current initial RTO of 1second. With this the final timeout
        for an active TCP connection attempt will happen after 127seconds.