1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 21da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 31da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Network device configuration 41da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 51da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardtmenuconfig NETDEVICES 7ce2d2aedSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso default y if UML 8e0009820SJan Engelhardt depends on NET 91da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Network device support" 10a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 111da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can say N here if you don't intend to connect your Linux box to 121da177e4SLinus Torvalds any other computer at all. 131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 141da177e4SLinus Torvalds You'll have to say Y if your computer contains a network card that 151da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to use under Linux. If you are going to run SLIP or PPP over 161da177e4SLinus Torvalds telephone line or null modem cable you need say Y here. Connecting 171da177e4SLinus Torvalds two machines with parallel ports using PLIP needs this, as well as 181da177e4SLinus Torvalds AX.25/KISS for sending Internet traffic over amateur radio links. 191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 201da177e4SLinus Torvalds See also "The Linux Network Administrator's Guide" by Olaf Kirch and 211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Terry Dawson. Available at <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 231da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 251618cb0cSRandy Dunlap# All the following symbols are dependent on NETDEVICES - do not repeat 261618cb0cSRandy Dunlap# that for each of the symbols. 271618cb0cSRandy Dunlapif NETDEVICES 28cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap 29a1606c7dSBen Hutchingsconfig MII 30a1606c7dSBen Hutchings tristate 31a1606c7dSBen Hutchings 3288491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NET_CORE 3388491d81SJeff Kirsher default y 3488491d81SJeff Kirsher bool "Network core driver support" 35a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3688491d81SJeff Kirsher You can say N here if you do not intend to use any of the 3788491d81SJeff Kirsher networking core drivers (i.e. VLAN, bridging, bonding, etc.) 3888491d81SJeff Kirsher 3988491d81SJeff Kirsherif NET_CORE 4088491d81SJeff Kirsher 4188491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig BONDING 4288491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate "Bonding driver support" 4388491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on INET 4488491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n 45285715acSArnd Bergmann depends on TLS || TLS_DEVICE=n 46a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4788491d81SJeff Kirsher Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet 4888491d81SJeff Kirsher Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco, 4988491d81SJeff Kirsher 'Trunking' by Sun, 802.3ad by the IEEE, and 'Bonding' in Linux. 5088491d81SJeff Kirsher 5188491d81SJeff Kirsher The driver supports multiple bonding modes to allow for both high 5288491d81SJeff Kirsher performance and high availability operation. 5388491d81SJeff Kirsher 54a362032eSMauro Carvalho Chehab Refer to <file:Documentation/networking/bonding.rst> for more 5588491d81SJeff Kirsher information. 5688491d81SJeff Kirsher 57253af423SJamal Hadi Salim To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 5888491d81SJeff Kirsher will be called bonding. 59253af423SJamal Hadi Salim 601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DUMMY 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Dummy net driver support" 62a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is essentially a bit-bucket device (i.e. traffic you send to 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds this device is consigned into oblivion) with a configurable IP 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds address. It is most commonly used in order to make your currently 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds inactive SLIP address seem like a real address for local programs. 679f5db535SIvan Babrou If you use SLIP or PPP, you might want to say Y here. It won't 689f5db535SIvan Babrou enlarge your kernel. What a deal. Read about it in the Network 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds Administrator's Guide, available from 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>. 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 739f486619SAlan Cox will be called dummy. 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 75e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeldconfig WIREGUARD 76e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld tristate "WireGuard secure network tunnel" 77e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld depends on NET && INET 78e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 79440fed95SAlexander Potapenko depends on !KMSAN # KMSAN doesn't support the crypto configs below 80e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 81e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select DST_CACHE 82e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO 83e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_LIB_CURVE25519 84e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_LIB_CHACHA20POLY1305 85e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_CHACHA20_X86_64 if X86 && 64BIT 86e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_POLY1305_X86_64 if X86 && 64BIT 87e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_BLAKE2S_X86 if X86 && 64BIT 88e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_CURVE25519_X86 if X86 && 64BIT 89bce24739SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_CHACHA20_NEON if ARM || (ARM64 && KERNEL_MODE_NEON) 90e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_POLY1305_NEON if ARM64 && KERNEL_MODE_NEON 91e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_POLY1305_ARM if ARM 92a64bfe7aSEric Biggers select CRYPTO_BLAKE2S_ARM if ARM 93e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_CURVE25519_NEON if ARM && KERNEL_MODE_NEON 94e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_CHACHA_MIPS if CPU_MIPS32_R2 956c810cf2SMaciej W. Rozycki select CRYPTO_POLY1305_MIPS if MIPS 960d1f7008SVladis Dronov select CRYPTO_CHACHA_S390 if S390 97e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld help 98e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld WireGuard is a secure, fast, and easy to use replacement for IPSec 99e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld that uses modern cryptography and clever networking tricks. It's 100e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld designed to be fairly general purpose and abstract enough to fit most 101e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld use cases, while at the same time remaining extremely simple to 102e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld configure. See www.wireguard.com for more info. 103e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld 104e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld It's safe to say Y or M here, as the driver is very lightweight and 105e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld is only in use when an administrator chooses to add an interface. 106e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld 107e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeldconfig WIREGUARD_DEBUG 108e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld bool "Debugging checks and verbose messages" 109e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld depends on WIREGUARD 110e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld help 111e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld This will write log messages for handshake and other events 112e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld that occur for a WireGuard interface. It will also perform some 113e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld extra validation checks and unit tests at various points. This is 114e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld only useful for debugging. 115e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld 116e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld Say N here unless you know what you're doing. 117e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld 11888491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig EQUALIZER 11988491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate "EQL (serial line load balancing) support" 120a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 12188491d81SJeff Kirsher If you have two serial connections to some other computer (this 12288491d81SJeff Kirsher usually requires two modems and two telephone lines) and you use 12388491d81SJeff Kirsher SLIP (the protocol for sending Internet traffic over telephone 12488491d81SJeff Kirsher lines) or PPP (a better SLIP) on them, you can make them behave like 12588491d81SJeff Kirsher one double speed connection using this driver. Naturally, this has 12688491d81SJeff Kirsher to be supported at the other end as well, either with a similar EQL 12788491d81SJeff Kirsher Linux driver or with a Livingston Portmaster 2e. 1281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12988491d81SJeff Kirsher Say Y if you want this and read 13006df6572SMauro Carvalho Chehab <file:Documentation/networking/eql.rst>. You may also want to read 13188491d81SJeff Kirsher section 6.2 of the NET-3-HOWTO, available from 13288491d81SJeff Kirsher <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1341da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 13588491d81SJeff Kirsher will be called eql. If unsure, say N. 13688491d81SJeff Kirsher 13788491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NET_FC 13888491d81SJeff Kirsher bool "Fibre Channel driver support" 13988491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on SCSI && PCI 14088491d81SJeff Kirsher help 14188491d81SJeff Kirsher Fibre Channel is a high speed serial protocol mainly used to connect 14288491d81SJeff Kirsher large storage devices to the computer; it is compatible with and 14388491d81SJeff Kirsher intended to replace SCSI. 14488491d81SJeff Kirsher 14588491d81SJeff Kirsher If you intend to use Fibre Channel, you need to have a Fibre channel 14688491d81SJeff Kirsher adaptor card in your computer; say Y here and to the driver for your 14788491d81SJeff Kirsher adaptor below. You also should have said Y to "SCSI support" and 14888491d81SJeff Kirsher "SCSI generic support". 14988491d81SJeff Kirsher 15088491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig IFB 15188491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate "Intermediate Functional Block support" 152046178e7SLukas Wunner depends on NET_ACT_MIRRED || NFT_FWD_NETDEV 1532c64605bSPablo Neira Ayuso select NET_REDIRECT 154a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 15588491d81SJeff Kirsher This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of 15688491d81SJeff Kirsher resources. 15788491d81SJeff Kirsher To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 15888491d81SJeff Kirsher will be called ifb. If you want to use more than one ifb 15988491d81SJeff Kirsher device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module. 16088491d81SJeff Kirsher Instead of 'ifb', the devices will then be called 'ifb0', 16188491d81SJeff Kirsher 'ifb1' etc. 16288491d81SJeff Kirsher Look at the iproute2 documentation directory for usage etc 1631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1643d249d4cSJiri Pirkosource "drivers/net/team/Kconfig" 1653d249d4cSJiri Pirko 166b863ceb7SPatrick McHardyconfig MACVLAN 167bd085b93SKees Cook tristate "MAC-VLAN support" 168a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 169b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to 170b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface. 171b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy 1723dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy Macvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the 1733dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-2.6.23 release: 1743dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy 1753dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy "ip link add link <real dev> [ address MAC ] [ NAME ] type macvlan" 1763dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy 177b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 178b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy will be called macvlan. 179b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy 18020d29d7aSArnd Bergmannconfig MACVTAP 181bd085b93SKees Cook tristate "MAC-VLAN based tap driver" 18220d29d7aSArnd Bergmann depends on MACVLAN 183de11b0e8SBen Hutchings depends on INET 1849a393b5dSSainath Grandhi select TAP 18520d29d7aSArnd Bergmann help 18620d29d7aSArnd Bergmann This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based 18720d29d7aSArnd Bergmann on the MAC-VLAN network interface, called macvtap. A macvtap device 18820d29d7aSArnd Bergmann can be added in the same way as a macvlan device, using 'type 189c7966b52SJan Luebbe macvtap', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface. 19020d29d7aSArnd Bergmann 19120d29d7aSArnd Bergmann To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 19220d29d7aSArnd Bergmann will be called macvtap. 19320d29d7aSArnd Bergmann 194c675e06aSDaniel Borkmannconfig IPVLAN_L3S 195c675e06aSDaniel Borkmann depends on NETFILTER 196a37d45b6SRandy Dunlap depends on IPVLAN 197c675e06aSDaniel Borkmann def_bool y 198c675e06aSDaniel Borkmann select NET_L3_MASTER_DEV 1992ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 2002ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewarconfig IPVLAN 2012ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar tristate "IP-VLAN support" 202265de6d1SMahesh Bandewar depends on INET 2037f897db3SArnd Bergmann depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 204a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2052ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar This allows one to create virtual devices off of a main interface 2062ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar and packets will be delivered based on the dest L3 (IPv6/IPv4 addr) 2072ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar on packets. All interfaces (including the main interface) share L2 2082ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar making it transparent to the connected L2 switch. 2092ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 2102ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar Ipvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the 211f4c2b7a0SMahesh Bandewar iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-3.19 release: 2122ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 2132ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar "ip link add link <main-dev> [ NAME ] type ipvlan" 2142ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 2152ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2162ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar will be called ipvlan. 2172ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 218235a9d89SSainath Grandhiconfig IPVTAP 219235a9d89SSainath Grandhi tristate "IP-VLAN based tap driver" 220235a9d89SSainath Grandhi depends on IPVLAN 221235a9d89SSainath Grandhi depends on INET 222235a9d89SSainath Grandhi select TAP 223a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 224235a9d89SSainath Grandhi This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based 225235a9d89SSainath Grandhi on the IP-VLAN network interface, called ipvtap. An ipvtap device 226235a9d89SSainath Grandhi can be added in the same way as a ipvlan device, using 'type 227235a9d89SSainath Grandhi ipvtap', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface. 228235a9d89SSainath Grandhi 229235a9d89SSainath Grandhi To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 230235a9d89SSainath Grandhi will be called ipvtap. 2312ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 232d342894cSstephen hemmingerconfig VXLAN 233d342894cSstephen hemminger tristate "Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN)" 234c9b20a5eSKees Cook depends on INET 2353ee64f39STom Herbert select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 23697e219b7SEric Dumazet select GRO_CELLS 237a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 238d342894cSstephen hemminger This allows one to create vxlan virtual interfaces that provide 239d342894cSstephen hemminger Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. VXLAN is often used 240d342894cSstephen hemminger to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments. 241d342894cSstephen hemminger For more information see: 242d342894cSstephen hemminger http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-02 243d342894cSstephen hemminger 244d342894cSstephen hemminger To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 245d342894cSstephen hemminger will be called vxlan. 246d342894cSstephen hemminger 2472d07dc79SJohn W. Linvilleconfig GENEVE 248371bd106SPravin B Shelar tristate "Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation" 249a7603ac1SMatteo Croce depends on INET 250094be092STobias Regnery depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 251a7603ac1SMatteo Croce select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 25297e219b7SEric Dumazet select GRO_CELLS 253a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2542d07dc79SJohn W. Linville This allows one to create geneve virtual interfaces that provide 2552d07dc79SJohn W. Linville Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. GENEVE is often used 2562d07dc79SJohn W. Linville to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments. 2572d07dc79SJohn W. Linville For more information see: 2582d07dc79SJohn W. Linville http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gross-geneve-02 2592d07dc79SJohn W. Linville 2602d07dc79SJohn W. Linville To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2612d07dc79SJohn W. Linville will be called geneve. 2622d07dc79SJohn W. Linville 263571912c6SMartin Vargheseconfig BAREUDP 264571912c6SMartin Varghese tristate "Bare UDP Encapsulation" 265571912c6SMartin Varghese depends on INET 266571912c6SMartin Varghese depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 267571912c6SMartin Varghese select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 268571912c6SMartin Varghese select GRO_CELLS 269571912c6SMartin Varghese help 270571912c6SMartin Varghese This adds a bare UDP tunnel module for tunnelling different 271571912c6SMartin Varghese kinds of traffic like MPLS, IP, etc. inside a UDP tunnel. 272571912c6SMartin Varghese 273571912c6SMartin Varghese To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 274571912c6SMartin Varghese will be called bareudp. 275571912c6SMartin Varghese 276459aa660SPablo Neiraconfig GTP 277459aa660SPablo Neira tristate "GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U)" 278c22da366SMatteo Croce depends on INET 279c22da366SMatteo Croce select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 280a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 281459aa660SPablo Neira This allows one to create gtp virtual interfaces that provide 282459aa660SPablo Neira the GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U). This tunneling protocol 283459aa660SPablo Neira is used to prevent subscribers from accessing mobile carrier core 284459aa660SPablo Neira network infrastructure. This driver requires a userspace software that 285459aa660SPablo Neira implements the signaling protocol (GTP-C) to update its PDP context 286459aa660SPablo Neira base, such as OpenGGSN <http://git.osmocom.org/openggsn/). This 287459aa660SPablo Neira tunneling protocol is implemented according to the GSM TS 09.60 and 288459aa660SPablo Neira 3GPP TS 29.060 standards. 289459aa660SPablo Neira 290459aa660SPablo Neira To compile this drivers as a module, choose M here: the module 29100649542SColin Ian King will be called gtp. 292459aa660SPablo Neira 293b9022b53STaehee Yooconfig AMT 294b9022b53STaehee Yoo tristate "Automatic Multicast Tunneling (AMT)" 295b9022b53STaehee Yoo depends on INET && IP_MULTICAST 2969758aba8SArnd Bergmann depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 297b9022b53STaehee Yoo select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 298b9022b53STaehee Yoo help 299b9022b53STaehee Yoo This allows one to create AMT(Automatic Multicast Tunneling) 300b9022b53STaehee Yoo virtual interfaces that provide multicast tunneling. 301b9022b53STaehee Yoo There are two roles, Gateway, and Relay. 302b9022b53STaehee Yoo Gateway Encapsulates IGMP/MLD traffic from listeners to the Relay. 303b9022b53STaehee Yoo Gateway Decapsulates multicast traffic from the Relay to Listeners. 304b9022b53STaehee Yoo Relay Encapsulates multicast traffic from Sources to Gateway. 305b9022b53STaehee Yoo Relay Decapsulates IGMP/MLD traffic from Gateway. 306b9022b53STaehee Yoo 307b9022b53STaehee Yoo To compile this drivers as a module, choose M here: the module 308b9022b53STaehee Yoo will be called amt. 309b9022b53STaehee Yoo 310c09440f7SSabrina Dubrocaconfig MACSEC 311c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca tristate "IEEE 802.1AE MAC-level encryption (MACsec)" 312ab2ed017SArnd Bergmann select CRYPTO 313c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca select CRYPTO_AES 314c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca select CRYPTO_GCM 31597e219b7SEric Dumazet select GRO_CELLS 316a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 317c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca MACsec is an encryption standard for Ethernet. 318c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca 31988491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NETCONSOLE 32088491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate "Network console logging support" 321a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 32288491d81SJeff Kirsher If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this. 323d9d6ef25SMauro Carvalho Chehab See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst> for details. 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 32588491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC 32688491d81SJeff Kirsher bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets" 32788491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && CONFIGFS_FS && \ 32888491d81SJeff Kirsher !(NETCONSOLE=y && CONFIGFS_FS=m) 32988491d81SJeff Kirsher help 33088491d81SJeff Kirsher This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target 33188491d81SJeff Kirsher parameters (interface, IP addresses, port numbers, MAC addresses) 33288491d81SJeff Kirsher at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs. 333d9d6ef25SMauro Carvalho Chehab See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst> for details. 3341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 335*fad361a2SBreno Leitaoconfig NETCONSOLE_EXTENDED_LOG 336*fad361a2SBreno Leitao bool "Set kernel extended message by default" 337*fad361a2SBreno Leitao depends on NETCONSOLE 338*fad361a2SBreno Leitao default n 339*fad361a2SBreno Leitao help 340*fad361a2SBreno Leitao Set extended log support for netconsole message. If this option is 341*fad361a2SBreno Leitao set, log messages are transmitted with extended metadata header in a 342*fad361a2SBreno Leitao format similar to /dev/kmsg. See 343*fad361a2SBreno Leitao <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst> for details. 344*fad361a2SBreno Leitao 345*fad361a2SBreno Leitaoconfig NETCONSOLE_PREPEND_RELEASE 346*fad361a2SBreno Leitao bool "Prepend kernel release version in the message by default" 347*fad361a2SBreno Leitao depends on NETCONSOLE_EXTENDED_LOG 348*fad361a2SBreno Leitao default n 349*fad361a2SBreno Leitao help 350*fad361a2SBreno Leitao Set kernel release to be prepended to each netconsole message by 351*fad361a2SBreno Leitao default. If this option is set, the kernel release is prepended into 352*fad361a2SBreno Leitao the first field of every netconsole message, so, the netconsole 353*fad361a2SBreno Leitao server/peer can easily identify what kernel release is logging each 354*fad361a2SBreno Leitao message. See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst> for 355*fad361a2SBreno Leitao details. 356*fad361a2SBreno Leitao 35788491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NETPOLL 35888491d81SJeff Kirsher def_bool NETCONSOLE 35988491d81SJeff Kirsher 36088491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NET_POLL_CONTROLLER 36188491d81SJeff Kirsher def_bool NETPOLL 36288491d81SJeff Kirsher 363548c237cSJon Masonconfig NTB_NETDEV 364ec110bc7SAllen Hubbe tristate "Virtual Ethernet over NTB Transport" 365ec110bc7SAllen Hubbe depends on NTB_TRANSPORT 366548c237cSJon Mason 36788491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig RIONET 36888491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support" 36988491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on RAPIDIO 37088491d81SJeff Kirsher 37188491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig RIONET_TX_SIZE 37288491d81SJeff Kirsher int "Number of outbound queue entries" 37388491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on RIONET 37488491d81SJeff Kirsher default "128" 37588491d81SJeff Kirsher 37688491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig RIONET_RX_SIZE 37788491d81SJeff Kirsher int "Number of inbound queue entries" 37888491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on RIONET 37988491d81SJeff Kirsher default "128" 3801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TUN 3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support" 383de11b0e8SBen Hutchings depends on INET 3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 385a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3861da177e4SLinus Torvalds TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space 3871da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet 3881da177e4SLinus Torvalds device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media, 3891da177e4SLinus Torvalds receives them from user space program and instead of sending packets 3901da177e4SLinus Torvalds via physical media writes them to the user space program. 3911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3921da177e4SLinus Torvalds When a program opens /dev/net/tun, driver creates and registers 3931da177e4SLinus Torvalds corresponding net device tunX or tapX. After a program closed above 3941da177e4SLinus Torvalds devices, driver will automatically delete tunXX or tapXX device and 3951da177e4SLinus Torvalds all routes corresponding to it. 3961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 397973d55e5SMauro Carvalho Chehab Please read <file:Documentation/networking/tuntap.rst> for more 3981da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. 3991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4001da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 4011da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called tun. 4021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4031da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what to use this for, you don't need it. 4041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4059a393b5dSSainath Grandhiconfig TAP 4069a393b5dSSainath Grandhi tristate 407a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4089a393b5dSSainath Grandhi This option is selected by any driver implementing tap user space 4099a393b5dSSainath Grandhi interface for a virtual interface to re-use core tap functionality. 4109a393b5dSSainath Grandhi 4118b8e658bSGreg Kurzconfig TUN_VNET_CROSS_LE 4128b8e658bSGreg Kurz bool "Support for cross-endian vnet headers on little-endian kernels" 4138b8e658bSGreg Kurz default n 414a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4158b8e658bSGreg Kurz This option allows TUN/TAP and MACVTAP device drivers in a 4168b8e658bSGreg Kurz little-endian kernel to parse vnet headers that come from a 4178b8e658bSGreg Kurz big-endian legacy virtio device. 4188b8e658bSGreg Kurz 4198b8e658bSGreg Kurz Userspace programs can control the feature using the TUNSETVNETBE 4208b8e658bSGreg Kurz and TUNGETVNETBE ioctls. 4218b8e658bSGreg Kurz 4228b8e658bSGreg Kurz Unless you have a little-endian system hosting a big-endian virtual 4238b8e658bSGreg Kurz machine with a legacy virtio NIC, you should say N. 4248b8e658bSGreg Kurz 425e314dbdcSPavel Emelyanovconfig VETH 4266a9a0250SRusty Russell tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device" 4270ebab78cSLorenzo Bianconi select PAGE_POOL 428a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4296a9a0250SRusty Russell This device is a local ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs. 4306a9a0250SRusty Russell When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice 4316a9a0250SRusty Russell versa. 432e314dbdcSPavel Emelyanov 43388491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig VIRTIO_NET 434bd085b93SKees Cook tristate "Virtio network driver" 435bd085b93SKees Cook depends on VIRTIO 436ba5e4426SSridhar Samudrala select NET_FAILOVER 437a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 43888491d81SJeff Kirsher This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with 439ecda85e7SJuergen Gross QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M. 44088491d81SJeff Kirsher 441e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmannconfig NLMON 442e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann tristate "Virtual netlink monitoring device" 443a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 444e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann This option enables a monitoring net device for netlink skbs. The 445e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann purpose of this is to analyze netlink messages with packet sockets. 446e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann Thus applications like tcpdump will be able to see local netlink 447e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann messages if they tap into the netlink device, record pcaps for further 448e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann diagnostics, etc. This is mostly intended for developers or support 449e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann to debug netlink issues. If unsure, say N. 450e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann 451193125dbSDavid Ahernconfig NET_VRF 452193125dbSDavid Ahern tristate "Virtual Routing and Forwarding (Lite)" 45335402e31SDavid Ahern depends on IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES 454ee15ee5dSDavid Ahern depends on NET_L3_MASTER_DEV 45535402e31SDavid Ahern depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n 45635402e31SDavid Ahern depends on IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES || IPV6=n 457a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 458193125dbSDavid Ahern This option enables the support for mapping interfaces into VRF's. The 459193125dbSDavid Ahern support enables VRF devices. 460193125dbSDavid Ahern 4610b2e6644SGerard Garciaconfig VSOCKMON 4620b2e6644SGerard Garcia tristate "Virtual vsock monitoring device" 4630b2e6644SGerard Garcia depends on VHOST_VSOCK 464a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4650b2e6644SGerard Garcia This option enables a monitoring net device for vsock sockets. It is 4660b2e6644SGerard Garcia mostly intended for developers or support to debug vsock issues. If 4670b2e6644SGerard Garcia unsure, say N. 4680b2e6644SGerard Garcia 4693ffec6a1SLoic Poulainconfig MHI_NET 4703ffec6a1SLoic Poulain tristate "MHI network driver" 4713ffec6a1SLoic Poulain depends on MHI_BUS 4723ffec6a1SLoic Poulain help 4733ffec6a1SLoic Poulain This is the network driver for MHI bus. It can be used with 4747ffa7542SLoic Poulain QCOM based WWAN modems for IP or QMAP/rmnet protocol (like SDX55). 4757ffa7542SLoic Poulain Say Y or M. 4763ffec6a1SLoic Poulain 47788491d81SJeff Kirsherendif # NET_CORE 47888491d81SJeff Kirsher 47988491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig SUNGEM_PHY 48088491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate 48188491d81SJeff Kirsher 48288491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig" 48388491d81SJeff Kirsher 48488491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/atm/Kconfig" 48588491d81SJeff Kirsher 48688491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/caif/Kconfig" 48788491d81SJeff Kirsher 4883b158859SBen Hutchingssource "drivers/net/dsa/Kconfig" 4893b158859SBen Hutchings 49088491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig" 49188491d81SJeff Kirsher 49288491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig" 49388491d81SJeff Kirsher 494fecc7351SPaul Bollesource "drivers/net/hippi/Kconfig" 495fecc7351SPaul Bolle 49608120d23SAlex Eldersource "drivers/net/ipa/Kconfig" 49708120d23SAlex Elder 4981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_SB1000 4991da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000" 500cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap depends on PNP 501a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 5021da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as 5031da177e4SLinus Torvalds NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal 5041da177e4SLinus Torvalds cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable 5051da177e4SLinus Torvalds TV companies to provide cable modem access. It's a one-way 5061da177e4SLinus Torvalds downstream-only cable modem, meaning that your upstream net link is 5071da177e4SLinus Torvalds provided by your regular phone modem. 5081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5091da177e4SLinus Torvalds At present this driver only compiles as a module, so say M here if 5101da177e4SLinus Torvalds you have this card. The module will be called sb1000. Then read 511132db935SJakub Kicinski <file:Documentation/networking/device_drivers/cable/sb1000.rst> for 512b255e500SJakub Kicinski information on how to use this module, as it needs special ppp 513b255e500SJakub Kicinski scripts for establishing a connection. Further documentation 514b255e500SJakub Kicinski and the necessary scripts can be found at: 5151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5161da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.jacksonville.net/~fventuri/> 5171da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/sb1000.html> 5181da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://linuxpower.cx/~cable/> 5191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5201da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't have this card, of course say N. 5211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 52200db8189SAndy Flemingsource "drivers/net/phy/Kconfig" 52300db8189SAndy Fleming 5243114b075SOleksij Rempelsource "drivers/net/pse-pd/Kconfig" 5253114b075SOleksij Rempel 526d7786af5SVincent Mailholsource "drivers/net/can/Kconfig" 527d7786af5SVincent Mailhol 5284b2e6930SJeremy Kerrsource "drivers/net/mctp/Kconfig" 5294b2e6930SJeremy Kerr 530a9770eacSAndrew Lunnsource "drivers/net/mdio/Kconfig" 531a9770eacSAndrew Lunn 5322fa4e4b7SAndrew Lunnsource "drivers/net/pcs/Kconfig" 5332fa4e4b7SAndrew Lunn 53418e635f4SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/plip/Kconfig" 53518e635f4SJeff Kirsher 53688491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/ppp/Kconfig" 53788491d81SJeff Kirsher 538b5451d78SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/slip/Kconfig" 539b5451d78SJeff Kirsher 54088491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig" 54188491d81SJeff Kirsher 54288491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig" 54388491d81SJeff Kirsher 5441da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig" 5451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5461da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig" 5471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5480739d643Salex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.comsource "drivers/net/ieee802154/Kconfig" 5490739d643Salex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com 5509a44c1ccSLoic Poulainsource "drivers/net/wwan/Kconfig" 5519a44c1ccSLoic Poulain 5520d160211SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND 5530d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge tristate "Xen network device frontend driver" 5540d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on XEN 5557003087cSJeremy Fitzhardinge select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND 5566c5aa6fcSDenis Kirjanov select PAGE_POOL 5570d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 5580d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge help 559f942dc25SIan Campbell This driver provides support for Xen paravirtual network 560f942dc25SIan Campbell devices exported by a Xen network driver domain (often 561f942dc25SIan Campbell domain 0). 562f942dc25SIan Campbell 563f942dc25SIan Campbell The corresponding Linux backend driver is enabled by the 564f942dc25SIan Campbell CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND option. 565f942dc25SIan Campbell 566f942dc25SIan Campbell If you are compiling a kernel for use as Xen guest, you 567f942dc25SIan Campbell should say Y here. To compile this driver as a module, chose 568f942dc25SIan Campbell M here: the module will be called xen-netfront. 569f942dc25SIan Campbell 570f942dc25SIan Campbellconfig XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND 571f942dc25SIan Campbell tristate "Xen backend network device" 572f942dc25SIan Campbell depends on XEN_BACKEND 573f942dc25SIan Campbell help 574f942dc25SIan Campbell This driver allows the kernel to act as a Xen network driver 575f942dc25SIan Campbell domain which exports paravirtual network devices to other 576f942dc25SIan Campbell Xen domains. These devices can be accessed by any operating 577f942dc25SIan Campbell system that implements a compatible front end. 578f942dc25SIan Campbell 579f942dc25SIan Campbell The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the 580f942dc25SIan Campbell CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND configuration option. 581f942dc25SIan Campbell 582f942dc25SIan Campbell The backend driver presents a standard network device 583f942dc25SIan Campbell endpoint for each paravirtual network device to the driver 584f942dc25SIan Campbell domain network stack. These can then be bridged or routed 585f942dc25SIan Campbell etc in order to provide full network connectivity. 586f942dc25SIan Campbell 587f942dc25SIan Campbell If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen network driver 588f942dc25SIan Campbell domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To 589f942dc25SIan Campbell compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module 590f942dc25SIan Campbell will be called xen-netback. 5910d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge 592d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewaraconfig VMXNET3 593d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara tristate "VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver" 594115924b6SShreyas Bhatewara depends on PCI && INET 59500169a92SGuenter Roeck depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_64KB 59654f00cceSWilliam Tu select PAGE_POOL 597d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara help 598d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara This driver supports VMware's vmxnet3 virtual ethernet NIC. 599d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 600d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara module will be called vmxnet3. 601d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara 602658d439bSTaku Izumiconfig FUJITSU_ES 603658d439bSTaku Izumi tristate "FUJITSU Extended Socket Network Device driver" 604658d439bSTaku Izumi depends on ACPI 605658d439bSTaku Izumi help 606658d439bSTaku Izumi This driver provides support for Extended Socket network device 607658d439bSTaku Izumi on Extended Partitioning of FUJITSU PRIMEQUEST 2000 E2 series. 608658d439bSTaku Izumi 6090d0950a9SMika Westerbergsource "drivers/net/thunderbolt/Kconfig" 61095fa0405SHaiyang Zhangsource "drivers/net/hyperv/Kconfig" 61195fa0405SHaiyang Zhang 61283c9e13aSJakub Kicinskiconfig NETDEVSIM 61383c9e13aSJakub Kicinski tristate "Simulated networking device" 61483c9e13aSJakub Kicinski depends on DEBUG_FS 6151f399fc7SHongbo Yao depends on INET 61648bb9eb4SIdo Schimmel depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n 617a8700c3dSIdo Schimmel depends on PSAMPLE || PSAMPLE=n 618b63e78fcSVladimir Oltean depends on PTP_1588_CLOCK_MOCK || PTP_1588_CLOCK_MOCK=n 619f6b19b35SJiri Pirko select NET_DEVLINK 62083c9e13aSJakub Kicinski help 62183c9e13aSJakub Kicinski This driver is a developer testing tool and software model that can 62283c9e13aSJakub Kicinski be used to test various control path networking APIs, especially 62383c9e13aSJakub Kicinski HW-offload related. 62483c9e13aSJakub Kicinski 62583c9e13aSJakub Kicinski To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 62683c9e13aSJakub Kicinski will be called netdevsim. 62783c9e13aSJakub Kicinski 628cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudralaconfig NET_FAILOVER 629cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala tristate "Failover driver" 630cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala select FAILOVER 631cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala help 632cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala This provides an automated failover mechanism via APIs to create 633cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala and destroy a failover master netdev and manages a primary and 634cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala standby slave netdevs that get registered via the generic failover 635cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala infrastructure. This can be used by paravirtual drivers to enable 636cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala an alternate low latency datapath. It also enables live migration of 637cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala a VM with direct attached VF by failing over to the paravirtual 638cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala datapath when the VF is unplugged. 639cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala 6404228c394SArnd Bergmannconfig NETDEV_LEGACY_INIT 6414228c394SArnd Bergmann bool 6424228c394SArnd Bergmann depends on ISA 6434228c394SArnd Bergmann help 6444228c394SArnd Bergmann Drivers that call netdev_boot_setup_check() should select this 6454228c394SArnd Bergmann symbol, everything else no longer needs it. 6464228c394SArnd Bergmann 647d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardtendif # NETDEVICES 648