diff --git a/man/man8/tc-choke.8 b/man/man8/tc-choke.8
index 7b213be..620c7f6 100644
--- a/man/man8/tc-choke.8
+++ b/man/man8/tc-choke.8
@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B tc qdisc ... choke
 .B limit
-bytes
+packets
 .B min
-bytes
+packets
 .B max
-bytes
+packets
 .B avpkt
 bytes
 .B burst
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 
 CHOKe (CHOose and Keep for responsive flows, CHOose and Kill for unresponsive flows)
 is a classless qdisc designed to both identify and penalize flows that monopolize the
-queue.  CHOKe is a variation of RED, and the configuration is the same as RED.
+queue.  CHOKe is a variation of RED, and the configuration is similar to RED.
 
 .SH ALGORITHM
 Once the queue hits a certain average length, a random packet is drawn from the
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@
 The marking probability computation is the same as used by the RED qdisc.
 
 .SH PARAMETERS
-The parameters are the same as for RED, see
+The parameters are the same as for RED, except that RED uses bytes whereas choke
+counts packets. See
 .BR tc-red (8)
 for a description.