diff --git a/nifi-docs/src/main/asciidoc/administration-guide.adoc b/nifi-docs/src/main/asciidoc/administration-guide.adoc
index 332290f382..8da36bdcbd 100644
--- a/nifi-docs/src/main/asciidoc/administration-guide.adoc
+++ b/nifi-docs/src/main/asciidoc/administration-guide.adoc
@@ -159,12 +159,6 @@ Set how long sockets stay in a TIMED_WAIT state when closed::
 You don't want your sockets to sit and linger too long given that you want to be
 able to quickly setup and teardown new sockets.  It is a good idea to read more about
 it and adjust to something like
-
-for kernel 2.6
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-sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.netfilter.ip_conntrack_tcp_timeout_time_wait="1"
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-for kernel 3.0
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 sudo sysctl -w net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_tcp_timeout_time_wait="1"
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