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  1. #
  2. # Network device configuration
  3. #
  4. menuconfig NETDEVICES
  5. default y if UML
  6. depends on NET
  7. bool "Network device support"
  8. ---help---
  9. You can say N here if you don't intend to connect your Linux box to
  10. any other computer at all.
  11. You'll have to say Y if your computer contains a network card that
  12. you want to use under Linux. If you are going to run SLIP or PPP over
  13. telephone line or null modem cable you need say Y here. Connecting
  14. two machines with parallel ports using PLIP needs this, as well as
  15. AX.25/KISS for sending Internet traffic over amateur radio links.
  16. See also "The Linux Network Administrator's Guide" by Olaf Kirch and
  17. Terry Dawson. Available at <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
  18. If unsure, say Y.
  19. # All the following symbols are dependent on NETDEVICES - do not repeat
  20. # that for each of the symbols.
  21. if NETDEVICES
  22. config MII
  23. tristate
  24. config NET_CORE
  25. default y
  26. bool "Network core driver support"
  27. ---help---
  28. You can say N here if you do not intend to use any of the
  29. networking core drivers (i.e. VLAN, bridging, bonding, etc.)
  30. if NET_CORE
  31. config BONDING
  32. tristate "Bonding driver support"
  33. depends on INET
  34. depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n
  35. ---help---
  36. Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet
  37. Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco,
  38. 'Trunking' by Sun, 802.3ad by the IEEE, and 'Bonding' in Linux.
  39. The driver supports multiple bonding modes to allow for both high
  40. performance and high availability operation.
  41. Refer to <file:Documentation/networking/bonding.txt> for more
  42. information.
  43. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
  44. will be called bonding.
  45. config DUMMY
  46. tristate "Dummy net driver support"
  47. ---help---
  48. This is essentially a bit-bucket device (i.e. traffic you send to
  49. this device is consigned into oblivion) with a configurable IP
  50. address. It is most commonly used in order to make your currently
  51. inactive SLIP address seem like a real address for local programs.
  52. If you use SLIP or PPP, you might want to say Y here. Since this
  53. thing often comes in handy, the default is Y. It won't enlarge your
  54. kernel either. What a deal. Read about it in the Network
  55. Administrator's Guide, available from
  56. <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>.
  57. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
  58. will be called dummy.
  59. config EQUALIZER
  60. tristate "EQL (serial line load balancing) support"
  61. ---help---
  62. If you have two serial connections to some other computer (this
  63. usually requires two modems and two telephone lines) and you use
  64. SLIP (the protocol for sending Internet traffic over telephone
  65. lines) or PPP (a better SLIP) on them, you can make them behave like
  66. one double speed connection using this driver. Naturally, this has
  67. to be supported at the other end as well, either with a similar EQL
  68. Linux driver or with a Livingston Portmaster 2e.
  69. Say Y if you want this and read
  70. <file:Documentation/networking/eql.txt>. You may also want to read
  71. section 6.2 of the NET-3-HOWTO, available from
  72. <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
  73. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
  74. will be called eql. If unsure, say N.
  75. config NET_FC
  76. bool "Fibre Channel driver support"
  77. depends on SCSI && PCI
  78. help
  79. Fibre Channel is a high speed serial protocol mainly used to connect
  80. large storage devices to the computer; it is compatible with and
  81. intended to replace SCSI.
  82. If you intend to use Fibre Channel, you need to have a Fibre channel
  83. adaptor card in your computer; say Y here and to the driver for your
  84. adaptor below. You also should have said Y to "SCSI support" and
  85. "SCSI generic support".
  86. config IFB
  87. tristate "Intermediate Functional Block support"
  88. depends on NET_CLS_ACT
  89. ---help---
  90. This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of
  91. resources.
  92. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
  93. will be called ifb. If you want to use more than one ifb
  94. device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module.
  95. Instead of 'ifb', the devices will then be called 'ifb0',
  96. 'ifb1' etc.
  97. Look at the iproute2 documentation directory for usage etc
  98. source "drivers/net/team/Kconfig"
  99. config MACVLAN
  100. tristate "MAC-VLAN support"
  101. ---help---
  102. This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to
  103. or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface.
  104. Macvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the
  105. iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-2.6.23 release:
  106. "ip link add link <real dev> [ address MAC ] [ NAME ] type macvlan"
  107. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
  108. will be called macvlan.
  109. config MACVTAP
  110. tristate "MAC-VLAN based tap driver"
  111. depends on MACVLAN
  112. help
  113. This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based
  114. on the MAC-VLAN network interface, called macvtap. A macvtap device
  115. can be added in the same way as a macvlan device, using 'type
  116. macvlan', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface.
  117. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
  118. will be called macvtap.
  119. config VXLAN
  120. tristate "Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN)"
  121. depends on INET
  122. select NET_IP_TUNNEL
  123. ---help---
  124. This allows one to create vxlan virtual interfaces that provide
  125. Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. VXLAN is often used
  126. to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments.
  127. For more information see:
  128. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-02
  129. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
  130. will be called vxlan.
  131. config NETCONSOLE
  132. tristate "Network console logging support"
  133. ---help---
  134. If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this.
  135. See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details.
  136. config NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC
  137. bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets"
  138. depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && CONFIGFS_FS && \
  139. !(NETCONSOLE=y && CONFIGFS_FS=m)
  140. help
  141. This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target
  142. parameters (interface, IP addresses, port numbers, MAC addresses)
  143. at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs.
  144. See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details.
  145. config NETPOLL
  146. def_bool NETCONSOLE
  147. config NETPOLL_TRAP
  148. bool "Netpoll traffic trapping"
  149. default n
  150. depends on NETPOLL
  151. config NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
  152. def_bool NETPOLL
  153. config NTB_NETDEV
  154. tristate "Virtual Ethernet over NTB"
  155. depends on NTB
  156. config RIONET
  157. tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support"
  158. depends on RAPIDIO
  159. config RIONET_TX_SIZE
  160. int "Number of outbound queue entries"
  161. depends on RIONET
  162. default "128"
  163. config RIONET_RX_SIZE
  164. int "Number of inbound queue entries"
  165. depends on RIONET
  166. default "128"
  167. config TUN
  168. tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support"
  169. select CRC32
  170. ---help---
  171. TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space
  172. programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet
  173. device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media,
  174. receives them from user space program and instead of sending packets
  175. via physical media writes them to the user space program.
  176. When a program opens /dev/net/tun, driver creates and registers
  177. corresponding net device tunX or tapX. After a program closed above
  178. devices, driver will automatically delete tunXX or tapXX device and
  179. all routes corresponding to it.
  180. Please read <file:Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt> for more
  181. information.
  182. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
  183. will be called tun.
  184. If you don't know what to use this for, you don't need it.
  185. config VETH
  186. tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device"
  187. ---help---
  188. This device is a local ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs.
  189. When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice
  190. versa.
  191. config VIRTIO_NET
  192. tristate "Virtio network driver"
  193. depends on VIRTIO
  194. ---help---
  195. This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with
  196. lguest or QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M.
  197. config NLMON
  198. tristate "Virtual netlink monitoring device"
  199. ---help---
  200. This option enables a monitoring net device for netlink skbs. The
  201. purpose of this is to analyze netlink messages with packet sockets.
  202. Thus applications like tcpdump will be able to see local netlink
  203. messages if they tap into the netlink device, record pcaps for further
  204. diagnostics, etc. This is mostly intended for developers or support
  205. to debug netlink issues. If unsure, say N.
  206. endif # NET_CORE
  207. config SUNGEM_PHY
  208. tristate
  209. source "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig"
  210. source "drivers/atm/Kconfig"
  211. source "drivers/net/caif/Kconfig"
  212. source "drivers/net/dsa/Kconfig"
  213. source "drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig"
  214. source "drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig"
  215. source "drivers/net/hippi/Kconfig"
  216. config NET_SB1000
  217. tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000"
  218. depends on PNP
  219. ---help---
  220. This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as
  221. NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal
  222. cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable
  223. TV companies to provide cable modem access. It's a one-way
  224. downstream-only cable modem, meaning that your upstream net link is
  225. provided by your regular phone modem.
  226. At present this driver only compiles as a module, so say M here if
  227. you have this card. The module will be called sb1000. Then read
  228. <file:Documentation/networking/README.sb1000> for information on how
  229. to use this module, as it needs special ppp scripts for establishing
  230. a connection. Further documentation and the necessary scripts can be
  231. found at:
  232. <http://www.jacksonville.net/~fventuri/>
  233. <http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/sb1000.html>
  234. <http://linuxpower.cx/~cable/>
  235. If you don't have this card, of course say N.
  236. source "drivers/net/phy/Kconfig"
  237. source "drivers/net/plip/Kconfig"
  238. source "drivers/net/ppp/Kconfig"
  239. source "drivers/net/slip/Kconfig"
  240. source "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig"
  241. source "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig"
  242. source "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig"
  243. source "drivers/net/wimax/Kconfig"
  244. source "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig"
  245. source "drivers/net/ieee802154/Kconfig"
  246. config XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND
  247. tristate "Xen network device frontend driver"
  248. depends on XEN
  249. select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND
  250. default y
  251. help
  252. This driver provides support for Xen paravirtual network
  253. devices exported by a Xen network driver domain (often
  254. domain 0).
  255. The corresponding Linux backend driver is enabled by the
  256. CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND option.
  257. If you are compiling a kernel for use as Xen guest, you
  258. should say Y here. To compile this driver as a module, chose
  259. M here: the module will be called xen-netfront.
  260. config XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND
  261. tristate "Xen backend network device"
  262. depends on XEN_BACKEND
  263. help
  264. This driver allows the kernel to act as a Xen network driver
  265. domain which exports paravirtual network devices to other
  266. Xen domains. These devices can be accessed by any operating
  267. system that implements a compatible front end.
  268. The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the
  269. CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND configuration option.
  270. The backend driver presents a standard network device
  271. endpoint for each paravirtual network device to the driver
  272. domain network stack. These can then be bridged or routed
  273. etc in order to provide full network connectivity.
  274. If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen network driver
  275. domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To
  276. compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module
  277. will be called xen-netback.
  278. config VMXNET3
  279. tristate "VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver"
  280. depends on PCI && INET
  281. help
  282. This driver supports VMware's vmxnet3 virtual ethernet NIC.
  283. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
  284. module will be called vmxnet3.
  285. source "drivers/net/hyperv/Kconfig"
  286. endif # NETDEVICES