diff --git a/man2/connect.2 b/man2/connect.2
index e6ca979e3..9bd855b1e 100644
--- a/man2/connect.2
+++ b/man2/connect.2
@@ -168,14 +168,7 @@ The passed address didn't have the correct address family in its
 field.
 .TP
 .B EAGAIN
-No more free local ports or insufficient entries in the routing cache.
-For
-.B AF_INET
-see the description of
-.I /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
-in
-.BR ip (7)
-for information on how to increase the number of local ports.
+Insufficient entries in the routing cache.
 .TP
 .B EALREADY
 The socket is nonblocking and a previous connection attempt has not yet