diff --git a/cmd/kubelet/app/options/options.go b/cmd/kubelet/app/options/options.go
index 1df05c67eb4..05a87b15224 100644
--- a/cmd/kubelet/app/options/options.go
+++ b/cmd/kubelet/app/options/options.go
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ func (s *KubeletServer) AddFlags(fs *pflag.FlagSet) {
 	fs.DurationVar(&s.VolumeStatsAggPeriod.Duration, "volume-stats-agg-period", s.VolumeStatsAggPeriod.Duration, "Specifies interval for kubelet to calculate and cache the volume disk usage for all pods and volumes.  To disable volume calculations, set to 0.  Default: '1m'")
 	fs.StringVar(&s.NetworkPluginName, "network-plugin", s.NetworkPluginName, "<Warning: Alpha feature> The name of the network plugin to be invoked for various events in kubelet/pod lifecycle")
 	fs.StringVar(&s.NetworkPluginDir, "network-plugin-dir", s.NetworkPluginDir, "<Warning: Alpha feature> The full path of the directory in which to search for network plugins")
-	fs.Int32Var(&s.NetworkPluginMTU, "network-plugin-mtu", s.NetworkPluginMTU, "<Warning: Alpha feature> The MTU to be passed to the network plugin, to override the default")
+	fs.Int32Var(&s.NetworkPluginMTU, "network-plugin-mtu", s.NetworkPluginMTU, "<Warning: Alpha feature> The MTU to be passed to the network plugin, to override the default. Set to 0 to use the default 1460 MTU.")
 	fs.StringVar(&s.VolumePluginDir, "volume-plugin-dir", s.VolumePluginDir, "<Warning: Alpha feature> The full path of the directory in which to search for additional third party volume plugins")
 	fs.StringVar(&s.CloudProvider, "cloud-provider", s.CloudProvider, "The provider for cloud services. By default, kubelet will attempt to auto-detect the cloud provider. Specify empty string for running with no cloud provider. [default=auto-detect]")
 	fs.StringVar(&s.CloudConfigFile, "cloud-config", s.CloudConfigFile, "The path to the cloud provider configuration file.  Empty string for no configuration file.")
diff --git a/pkg/kubelet/network/kubenet/kubenet_unsupported.go b/pkg/kubelet/network/kubenet/kubenet_unsupported.go
index 28bc88227ed..34bc73581d3 100644
--- a/pkg/kubelet/network/kubenet/kubenet_unsupported.go
+++ b/pkg/kubelet/network/kubenet/kubenet_unsupported.go
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ func NewPlugin(networkPluginDir string) network.NetworkPlugin {
 	return &kubenetNetworkPlugin{}
 }
 
-func (plugin *kubenetNetworkPlugin) Init(host network.Host, hairpinMode componentconfig.HairpinMode, nonMasqueradeCIDR string) error {
+func (plugin *kubenetNetworkPlugin) Init(host network.Host, hairpinMode componentconfig.HairpinMode, nonMasqueradeCIDR string, mtu int) error {
 	return fmt.Errorf("Kubenet is not supported in this build")
 }