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 ####> are applicable to all of those.
 #### **--user-mode-networking**
 
-Indicates that this machine relays traffic from the guest through a user-space
-process running on the host. In some VPN configurations the VPN may drop
-traffic from alternate network interfaces, including VM network devices. By
-enabling user-mode networking (a setting of `true`), VPNs observe all
-podman machine traffic as coming from the host, bypassing the problem.
+This option can only be used for the WSL provider on Windows. On all other
+platforms this option is ignored and user mode networking will always be
+`true` there because these providers always depend on gvproxy (our user
+mode networking tool for the VMs)
 
-When the qemu backend is used (Linux, Mac), user-mode networking is
-mandatory and the only allowed value is `true`. In contrast, The Windows/WSL
-backend defaults to `false`, and follows the standard WSL network setup.
+In contrast, The Windows/WSL backend defaults to `false`, and follows the
+standard WSL network setup.
 Changing this setting to `true` on Windows/WSL informs Podman to replace
 the WSL networking setup on start of this machine instance with a user-mode
 networking distribution. Since WSL shares the same kernel across
 distributions, all other running distributions reuses this network.
 Likewise, when the last machine instance with a `true` setting stops, the
 original networking setup is restored.
+
+In some VPN configurations the VPN may drop traffic from alternate network
+interfaces, including VM network devices. By enabling user-mode networking
+VPNs observe all podman machine traffic as coming from the host, bypassing
+the problem.