diff --git a/Shorewall/manpages/shorewall-tcrules.xml b/Shorewall/manpages/shorewall-tcrules.xml
index a6bc173fa..a2f8d4aa0 100644
--- a/Shorewall/manpages/shorewall-tcrules.xml
+++ b/Shorewall/manpages/shorewall-tcrules.xml
@@ -1051,10 +1051,10 @@ Normal-Service => 0x00
role="bold">:[max]]
- Optional - packet Length. This field, if present allow you to
- match the length of a packet against a specific value or range of
- values. You must have iptables length support for this to work. A
- range is specified in the form
+ Optional - packet payload length. This field, if present allow
+ you to match the length of a packet payload (Layer 4 data ) against
+ a specific value or range of values. You must have iptables length
+ support for this to work. A range is specified in the form
min:max where either
min or max (but not both)
may be omitted. If min is omitted, then 0 is
diff --git a/Shorewall6/manpages/shorewall6-tcrules.xml b/Shorewall6/manpages/shorewall6-tcrules.xml
index c545b3695..6ac580ee4 100644
--- a/Shorewall6/manpages/shorewall6-tcrules.xml
+++ b/Shorewall6/manpages/shorewall6-tcrules.xml
@@ -913,10 +913,10 @@ Normal-Service => 0x00
role="bold">:[max]]
- Optional packet Length. This field, if present allow you to
- match the length of a packet against a specific value or range of
- values. You must have ip6tables length support for this to work. A
- range is specified in the form
+ Optional - packet payload length. This field, if present allow
+ you to match the length of a packet payload (Layer 4 data ) against
+ a specific value or range of values. You must have iptables length
+ support for this to work. A range is specified in the form
min:max where either
min or max (but not both)
may be omitted. If min is omitted, then 0 is