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" 101da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---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" 35253af423SJamal Hadi Salim ---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 4588491d81SJeff Kirsher ---help--- 4688491d81SJeff Kirsher Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet 4788491d81SJeff Kirsher Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco, 4888491d81SJeff Kirsher 'Trunking' by Sun, 802.3ad by the IEEE, and 'Bonding' in Linux. 4988491d81SJeff Kirsher 5088491d81SJeff Kirsher The driver supports multiple bonding modes to allow for both high 5188491d81SJeff Kirsher performance and high availability operation. 5288491d81SJeff Kirsher 5388491d81SJeff Kirsher Refer to <file:Documentation/networking/bonding.txt> for more 5488491d81SJeff Kirsher information. 5588491d81SJeff Kirsher 56253af423SJamal Hadi Salim To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 5788491d81SJeff Kirsher will be called bonding. 58253af423SJamal Hadi Salim 591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DUMMY 601da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Dummy net driver support" 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is essentially a bit-bucket device (i.e. traffic you send to 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds this device is consigned into oblivion) with a configurable IP 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds address. It is most commonly used in order to make your currently 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds inactive SLIP address seem like a real address for local programs. 669f5db535SIvan Babrou If you use SLIP or PPP, you might want to say Y here. It won't 679f5db535SIvan Babrou enlarge your kernel. What a deal. Read about it in the Network 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds Administrator's Guide, available from 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>. 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 729f486619SAlan Cox will be called dummy. 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 74e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeldconfig WIREGUARD 75e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld tristate "WireGuard secure network tunnel" 76e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld depends on NET && INET 77e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 78e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 79e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select DST_CACHE 80e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO 81e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_LIB_CURVE25519 82e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_LIB_CHACHA20POLY1305 83e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_LIB_BLAKE2S 84e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_CHACHA20_X86_64 if X86 && 64BIT 85e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_POLY1305_X86_64 if X86 && 64BIT 86e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_BLAKE2S_X86 if X86 && 64BIT 87e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_CURVE25519_X86 if X86 && 64BIT 88d7c68a38SJason A. Donenfeld select ARM_CRYPTO if ARM 89d7c68a38SJason A. Donenfeld select ARM64_CRYPTO if ARM64 90e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_CHACHA20_NEON if (ARM || ARM64) && KERNEL_MODE_NEON 91e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_POLY1305_NEON if ARM64 && KERNEL_MODE_NEON 92e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_POLY1305_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 95e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_POLY1305_MIPS if CPU_MIPS32 || (CPU_MIPS64 && 64BIT) 96e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld help 97e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld WireGuard is a secure, fast, and easy to use replacement for IPSec 98e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld that uses modern cryptography and clever networking tricks. It's 99e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld designed to be fairly general purpose and abstract enough to fit most 100e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld use cases, while at the same time remaining extremely simple to 101e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld configure. See www.wireguard.com for more info. 102e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld 103e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld It's safe to say Y or M here, as the driver is very lightweight and 104e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld is only in use when an administrator chooses to add an interface. 105e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld 106e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeldconfig WIREGUARD_DEBUG 107e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld bool "Debugging checks and verbose messages" 108e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld depends on WIREGUARD 109e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld help 110e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld This will write log messages for handshake and other events 111e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld that occur for a WireGuard interface. It will also perform some 112e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld extra validation checks and unit tests at various points. This is 113e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld only useful for debugging. 114e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld 115e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld Say N here unless you know what you're doing. 116e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld 11788491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig EQUALIZER 11888491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate "EQL (serial line load balancing) support" 1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 12088491d81SJeff Kirsher If you have two serial connections to some other computer (this 12188491d81SJeff Kirsher usually requires two modems and two telephone lines) and you use 12288491d81SJeff Kirsher SLIP (the protocol for sending Internet traffic over telephone 12388491d81SJeff Kirsher lines) or PPP (a better SLIP) on them, you can make them behave like 12488491d81SJeff Kirsher one double speed connection using this driver. Naturally, this has 12588491d81SJeff Kirsher to be supported at the other end as well, either with a similar EQL 12688491d81SJeff Kirsher Linux driver or with a Livingston Portmaster 2e. 1271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12888491d81SJeff Kirsher Say Y if you want this and read 12988491d81SJeff Kirsher <file:Documentation/networking/eql.txt>. You may also want to read 13088491d81SJeff Kirsher section 6.2 of the NET-3-HOWTO, available from 13188491d81SJeff Kirsher <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1331da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 13488491d81SJeff Kirsher will be called eql. If unsure, say N. 13588491d81SJeff Kirsher 13688491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NET_FC 13788491d81SJeff Kirsher bool "Fibre Channel driver support" 13888491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on SCSI && PCI 13988491d81SJeff Kirsher help 14088491d81SJeff Kirsher Fibre Channel is a high speed serial protocol mainly used to connect 14188491d81SJeff Kirsher large storage devices to the computer; it is compatible with and 14288491d81SJeff Kirsher intended to replace SCSI. 14388491d81SJeff Kirsher 14488491d81SJeff Kirsher If you intend to use Fibre Channel, you need to have a Fibre channel 14588491d81SJeff Kirsher adaptor card in your computer; say Y here and to the driver for your 14688491d81SJeff Kirsher adaptor below. You also should have said Y to "SCSI support" and 14788491d81SJeff Kirsher "SCSI generic support". 14888491d81SJeff Kirsher 14988491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig IFB 15088491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate "Intermediate Functional Block support" 15188491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on NET_CLS_ACT 15288491d81SJeff Kirsher ---help--- 15388491d81SJeff Kirsher This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of 15488491d81SJeff Kirsher resources. 15588491d81SJeff Kirsher To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 15688491d81SJeff Kirsher will be called ifb. If you want to use more than one ifb 15788491d81SJeff Kirsher device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module. 15888491d81SJeff Kirsher Instead of 'ifb', the devices will then be called 'ifb0', 15988491d81SJeff Kirsher 'ifb1' etc. 16088491d81SJeff Kirsher Look at the iproute2 documentation directory for usage etc 1611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1623d249d4cSJiri Pirkosource "drivers/net/team/Kconfig" 1633d249d4cSJiri Pirko 164b863ceb7SPatrick McHardyconfig MACVLAN 165bd085b93SKees Cook tristate "MAC-VLAN support" 166b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy ---help--- 167b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to 168b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface. 169b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy 1703dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy Macvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the 1713dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-2.6.23 release: 1723dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy 1733dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy "ip link add link <real dev> [ address MAC ] [ NAME ] type macvlan" 1743dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy 175b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 176b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy will be called macvlan. 177b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy 17820d29d7aSArnd Bergmannconfig MACVTAP 179bd085b93SKees Cook tristate "MAC-VLAN based tap driver" 18020d29d7aSArnd Bergmann depends on MACVLAN 181de11b0e8SBen Hutchings depends on INET 1829a393b5dSSainath Grandhi select TAP 18320d29d7aSArnd Bergmann help 18420d29d7aSArnd Bergmann This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based 18520d29d7aSArnd Bergmann on the MAC-VLAN network interface, called macvtap. A macvtap device 18620d29d7aSArnd Bergmann can be added in the same way as a macvlan device, using 'type 187c7966b52SJan Luebbe macvtap', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface. 18820d29d7aSArnd Bergmann 18920d29d7aSArnd Bergmann To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 19020d29d7aSArnd Bergmann will be called macvtap. 19120d29d7aSArnd Bergmann 192c675e06aSDaniel Borkmannconfig IPVLAN_L3S 193c675e06aSDaniel Borkmann depends on NETFILTER 194a37d45b6SRandy Dunlap depends on IPVLAN 195c675e06aSDaniel Borkmann def_bool y 196c675e06aSDaniel Borkmann select NET_L3_MASTER_DEV 1972ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 1982ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewarconfig IPVLAN 1992ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar tristate "IP-VLAN support" 200265de6d1SMahesh Bandewar depends on INET 2017f897db3SArnd Bergmann depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 2022ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar ---help--- 2032ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar This allows one to create virtual devices off of a main interface 2042ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar and packets will be delivered based on the dest L3 (IPv6/IPv4 addr) 2052ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar on packets. All interfaces (including the main interface) share L2 2062ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar making it transparent to the connected L2 switch. 2072ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 2082ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar Ipvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the 209f4c2b7a0SMahesh Bandewar iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-3.19 release: 2102ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 2112ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar "ip link add link <main-dev> [ NAME ] type ipvlan" 2122ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 2132ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2142ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar will be called ipvlan. 2152ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 216235a9d89SSainath Grandhiconfig IPVTAP 217235a9d89SSainath Grandhi tristate "IP-VLAN based tap driver" 218235a9d89SSainath Grandhi depends on IPVLAN 219235a9d89SSainath Grandhi depends on INET 220235a9d89SSainath Grandhi select TAP 221235a9d89SSainath Grandhi ---help--- 222235a9d89SSainath Grandhi This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based 223235a9d89SSainath Grandhi on the IP-VLAN network interface, called ipvtap. An ipvtap device 224235a9d89SSainath Grandhi can be added in the same way as a ipvlan device, using 'type 225235a9d89SSainath Grandhi ipvtap', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface. 226235a9d89SSainath Grandhi 227235a9d89SSainath Grandhi To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 228235a9d89SSainath Grandhi will be called ipvtap. 2292ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 230d342894cSstephen hemmingerconfig VXLAN 231d342894cSstephen hemminger tristate "Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN)" 232c9b20a5eSKees Cook depends on INET 2333ee64f39STom Herbert select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 23497e219b7SEric Dumazet select GRO_CELLS 235d342894cSstephen hemminger ---help--- 236d342894cSstephen hemminger This allows one to create vxlan virtual interfaces that provide 237d342894cSstephen hemminger Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. VXLAN is often used 238d342894cSstephen hemminger to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments. 239d342894cSstephen hemminger For more information see: 240d342894cSstephen hemminger http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-02 241d342894cSstephen hemminger 242d342894cSstephen hemminger To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 243d342894cSstephen hemminger will be called vxlan. 244d342894cSstephen hemminger 2452d07dc79SJohn W. Linvilleconfig GENEVE 246371bd106SPravin B Shelar tristate "Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation" 247a7603ac1SMatteo Croce depends on INET 248094be092STobias Regnery depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 249a7603ac1SMatteo Croce select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 25097e219b7SEric Dumazet select GRO_CELLS 2512d07dc79SJohn W. Linville ---help--- 2522d07dc79SJohn W. Linville This allows one to create geneve virtual interfaces that provide 2532d07dc79SJohn W. Linville Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. GENEVE is often used 2542d07dc79SJohn W. Linville to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments. 2552d07dc79SJohn W. Linville For more information see: 2562d07dc79SJohn W. Linville http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gross-geneve-02 2572d07dc79SJohn W. Linville 2582d07dc79SJohn W. Linville To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2592d07dc79SJohn W. Linville will be called geneve. 2602d07dc79SJohn W. Linville 261571912c6SMartin Vargheseconfig BAREUDP 262571912c6SMartin Varghese tristate "Bare UDP Encapsulation" 263571912c6SMartin Varghese depends on INET 264571912c6SMartin Varghese depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 265571912c6SMartin Varghese select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 266571912c6SMartin Varghese select GRO_CELLS 267571912c6SMartin Varghese help 268571912c6SMartin Varghese This adds a bare UDP tunnel module for tunnelling different 269571912c6SMartin Varghese kinds of traffic like MPLS, IP, etc. inside a UDP tunnel. 270571912c6SMartin Varghese 271571912c6SMartin Varghese To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 272571912c6SMartin Varghese will be called bareudp. 273571912c6SMartin Varghese 274459aa660SPablo Neiraconfig GTP 275459aa660SPablo Neira tristate "GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U)" 276c22da366SMatteo Croce depends on INET 277c22da366SMatteo Croce select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 278459aa660SPablo Neira ---help--- 279459aa660SPablo Neira This allows one to create gtp virtual interfaces that provide 280459aa660SPablo Neira the GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U). This tunneling protocol 281459aa660SPablo Neira is used to prevent subscribers from accessing mobile carrier core 282459aa660SPablo Neira network infrastructure. This driver requires a userspace software that 283459aa660SPablo Neira implements the signaling protocol (GTP-C) to update its PDP context 284459aa660SPablo Neira base, such as OpenGGSN <http://git.osmocom.org/openggsn/). This 285459aa660SPablo Neira tunneling protocol is implemented according to the GSM TS 09.60 and 286459aa660SPablo Neira 3GPP TS 29.060 standards. 287459aa660SPablo Neira 288459aa660SPablo Neira To compile this drivers as a module, choose M here: the module 289459aa660SPablo Neira wil be called gtp. 290459aa660SPablo Neira 291c09440f7SSabrina Dubrocaconfig MACSEC 292c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca tristate "IEEE 802.1AE MAC-level encryption (MACsec)" 293ab2ed017SArnd Bergmann select CRYPTO 294c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca select CRYPTO_AES 295c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca select CRYPTO_GCM 29697e219b7SEric Dumazet select GRO_CELLS 297c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca ---help--- 298c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca MACsec is an encryption standard for Ethernet. 299c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca 30088491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NETCONSOLE 30188491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate "Network console logging support" 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 30388491d81SJeff Kirsher If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this. 30488491d81SJeff Kirsher See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. 3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30688491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC 30788491d81SJeff Kirsher bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets" 30888491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && CONFIGFS_FS && \ 30988491d81SJeff Kirsher !(NETCONSOLE=y && CONFIGFS_FS=m) 31088491d81SJeff Kirsher help 31188491d81SJeff Kirsher This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target 31288491d81SJeff Kirsher parameters (interface, IP addresses, port numbers, MAC addresses) 31388491d81SJeff Kirsher at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs. 31488491d81SJeff Kirsher See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. 3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 31688491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NETPOLL 31788491d81SJeff Kirsher def_bool NETCONSOLE 31883fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 31988491d81SJeff Kirsher 32088491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NET_POLL_CONTROLLER 32188491d81SJeff Kirsher def_bool NETPOLL 32288491d81SJeff Kirsher 323548c237cSJon Masonconfig NTB_NETDEV 324ec110bc7SAllen Hubbe tristate "Virtual Ethernet over NTB Transport" 325ec110bc7SAllen Hubbe depends on NTB_TRANSPORT 326548c237cSJon Mason 32788491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig RIONET 32888491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support" 32988491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on RAPIDIO 33088491d81SJeff Kirsher 33188491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig RIONET_TX_SIZE 33288491d81SJeff Kirsher int "Number of outbound queue entries" 33388491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on RIONET 33488491d81SJeff Kirsher default "128" 33588491d81SJeff Kirsher 33688491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig RIONET_RX_SIZE 33788491d81SJeff Kirsher int "Number of inbound queue entries" 33888491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on RIONET 33988491d81SJeff Kirsher default "128" 3401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TUN 3421da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support" 343de11b0e8SBen Hutchings depends on INET 3441da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space 3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet 3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media, 3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds receives them from user space program and instead of sending packets 3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds via physical media writes them to the user space program. 3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds When a program opens /dev/net/tun, driver creates and registers 3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds corresponding net device tunX or tapX. After a program closed above 3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds devices, driver will automatically delete tunXX or tapXX device and 3551da177e4SLinus Torvalds all routes corresponding to it. 3561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3571da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please read <file:Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt> for more 3581da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. 3591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3601da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 3611da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called tun. 3621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3631da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what to use this for, you don't need it. 3641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3659a393b5dSSainath Grandhiconfig TAP 3669a393b5dSSainath Grandhi tristate 3679a393b5dSSainath Grandhi ---help--- 3689a393b5dSSainath Grandhi This option is selected by any driver implementing tap user space 3699a393b5dSSainath Grandhi interface for a virtual interface to re-use core tap functionality. 3709a393b5dSSainath Grandhi 3718b8e658bSGreg Kurzconfig TUN_VNET_CROSS_LE 3728b8e658bSGreg Kurz bool "Support for cross-endian vnet headers on little-endian kernels" 3738b8e658bSGreg Kurz default n 3748b8e658bSGreg Kurz ---help--- 3758b8e658bSGreg Kurz This option allows TUN/TAP and MACVTAP device drivers in a 3768b8e658bSGreg Kurz little-endian kernel to parse vnet headers that come from a 3778b8e658bSGreg Kurz big-endian legacy virtio device. 3788b8e658bSGreg Kurz 3798b8e658bSGreg Kurz Userspace programs can control the feature using the TUNSETVNETBE 3808b8e658bSGreg Kurz and TUNGETVNETBE ioctls. 3818b8e658bSGreg Kurz 3828b8e658bSGreg Kurz Unless you have a little-endian system hosting a big-endian virtual 3838b8e658bSGreg Kurz machine with a legacy virtio NIC, you should say N. 3848b8e658bSGreg Kurz 385e314dbdcSPavel Emelyanovconfig VETH 3866a9a0250SRusty Russell tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device" 387e314dbdcSPavel Emelyanov ---help--- 3886a9a0250SRusty Russell This device is a local ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs. 3896a9a0250SRusty Russell When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice 3906a9a0250SRusty Russell versa. 391e314dbdcSPavel Emelyanov 39288491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig VIRTIO_NET 393bd085b93SKees Cook tristate "Virtio network driver" 394bd085b93SKees Cook depends on VIRTIO 395ba5e4426SSridhar Samudrala select NET_FAILOVER 39688491d81SJeff Kirsher ---help--- 39788491d81SJeff Kirsher This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with 398ecda85e7SJuergen Gross QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M. 39988491d81SJeff Kirsher 400e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmannconfig NLMON 401e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann tristate "Virtual netlink monitoring device" 402e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann ---help--- 403e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann This option enables a monitoring net device for netlink skbs. The 404e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann purpose of this is to analyze netlink messages with packet sockets. 405e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann Thus applications like tcpdump will be able to see local netlink 406e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann messages if they tap into the netlink device, record pcaps for further 407e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann diagnostics, etc. This is mostly intended for developers or support 408e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann to debug netlink issues. If unsure, say N. 409e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann 410193125dbSDavid Ahernconfig NET_VRF 411193125dbSDavid Ahern tristate "Virtual Routing and Forwarding (Lite)" 41235402e31SDavid Ahern depends on IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES 413ee15ee5dSDavid Ahern depends on NET_L3_MASTER_DEV 41435402e31SDavid Ahern depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n 41535402e31SDavid Ahern depends on IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES || IPV6=n 416193125dbSDavid Ahern ---help--- 417193125dbSDavid Ahern This option enables the support for mapping interfaces into VRF's. The 418193125dbSDavid Ahern support enables VRF devices. 419193125dbSDavid Ahern 4200b2e6644SGerard Garciaconfig VSOCKMON 4210b2e6644SGerard Garcia tristate "Virtual vsock monitoring device" 4220b2e6644SGerard Garcia depends on VHOST_VSOCK 4230b2e6644SGerard Garcia ---help--- 4240b2e6644SGerard Garcia This option enables a monitoring net device for vsock sockets. It is 4250b2e6644SGerard Garcia mostly intended for developers or support to debug vsock issues. If 4260b2e6644SGerard Garcia unsure, say N. 4270b2e6644SGerard Garcia 42888491d81SJeff Kirsherendif # NET_CORE 42988491d81SJeff Kirsher 43088491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig SUNGEM_PHY 43188491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate 43288491d81SJeff Kirsher 43388491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig" 43488491d81SJeff Kirsher 43588491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/atm/Kconfig" 43688491d81SJeff Kirsher 43788491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/caif/Kconfig" 43888491d81SJeff Kirsher 4393b158859SBen Hutchingssource "drivers/net/dsa/Kconfig" 4403b158859SBen Hutchings 44188491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig" 44288491d81SJeff Kirsher 44388491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig" 44488491d81SJeff Kirsher 445fecc7351SPaul Bollesource "drivers/net/hippi/Kconfig" 446fecc7351SPaul Bolle 447*08120d23SAlex Eldersource "drivers/net/ipa/Kconfig" 448*08120d23SAlex Elder 4491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_SB1000 4501da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000" 451cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap depends on PNP 4521da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4531da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as 4541da177e4SLinus Torvalds NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal 4551da177e4SLinus Torvalds cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable 4561da177e4SLinus Torvalds TV companies to provide cable modem access. It's a one-way 4571da177e4SLinus Torvalds downstream-only cable modem, meaning that your upstream net link is 4581da177e4SLinus Torvalds provided by your regular phone modem. 4591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4601da177e4SLinus Torvalds At present this driver only compiles as a module, so say M here if 4611da177e4SLinus Torvalds you have this card. The module will be called sb1000. Then read 462b255e500SJakub Kicinski <file:Documentation/networking/device_drivers/sb1000.txt> for 463b255e500SJakub Kicinski information on how to use this module, as it needs special ppp 464b255e500SJakub Kicinski scripts for establishing a connection. Further documentation 465b255e500SJakub Kicinski and the necessary scripts can be found at: 4661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4671da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.jacksonville.net/~fventuri/> 4681da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/sb1000.html> 4691da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://linuxpower.cx/~cable/> 4701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4711da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't have this card, of course say N. 4721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 47300db8189SAndy Flemingsource "drivers/net/phy/Kconfig" 47400db8189SAndy Fleming 47518e635f4SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/plip/Kconfig" 47618e635f4SJeff Kirsher 47788491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/ppp/Kconfig" 47888491d81SJeff Kirsher 479b5451d78SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/slip/Kconfig" 480b5451d78SJeff Kirsher 48188491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig" 48288491d81SJeff Kirsher 48388491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig" 48488491d81SJeff Kirsher 4851da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig" 4861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 487143ee2d5SInaky Perez-Gonzalezsource "drivers/net/wimax/Kconfig" 488143ee2d5SInaky Perez-Gonzalez 4891da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig" 4901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4910739d643Salex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.comsource "drivers/net/ieee802154/Kconfig" 4920739d643Salex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com 4930d160211SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND 4940d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge tristate "Xen network device frontend driver" 4950d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on XEN 4967003087cSJeremy Fitzhardinge select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND 4970d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 4980d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge help 499f942dc25SIan Campbell This driver provides support for Xen paravirtual network 500f942dc25SIan Campbell devices exported by a Xen network driver domain (often 501f942dc25SIan Campbell domain 0). 502f942dc25SIan Campbell 503f942dc25SIan Campbell The corresponding Linux backend driver is enabled by the 504f942dc25SIan Campbell CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND option. 505f942dc25SIan Campbell 506f942dc25SIan Campbell If you are compiling a kernel for use as Xen guest, you 507f942dc25SIan Campbell should say Y here. To compile this driver as a module, chose 508f942dc25SIan Campbell M here: the module will be called xen-netfront. 509f942dc25SIan Campbell 510f942dc25SIan Campbellconfig XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND 511f942dc25SIan Campbell tristate "Xen backend network device" 512f942dc25SIan Campbell depends on XEN_BACKEND 513f942dc25SIan Campbell help 514f942dc25SIan Campbell This driver allows the kernel to act as a Xen network driver 515f942dc25SIan Campbell domain which exports paravirtual network devices to other 516f942dc25SIan Campbell Xen domains. These devices can be accessed by any operating 517f942dc25SIan Campbell system that implements a compatible front end. 518f942dc25SIan Campbell 519f942dc25SIan Campbell The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the 520f942dc25SIan Campbell CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND configuration option. 521f942dc25SIan Campbell 522f942dc25SIan Campbell The backend driver presents a standard network device 523f942dc25SIan Campbell endpoint for each paravirtual network device to the driver 524f942dc25SIan Campbell domain network stack. These can then be bridged or routed 525f942dc25SIan Campbell etc in order to provide full network connectivity. 526f942dc25SIan Campbell 527f942dc25SIan Campbell If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen network driver 528f942dc25SIan Campbell domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To 529f942dc25SIan Campbell compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module 530f942dc25SIan Campbell will be called xen-netback. 5310d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge 532d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewaraconfig VMXNET3 533d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara tristate "VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver" 534115924b6SShreyas Bhatewara depends on PCI && INET 535fbdf0e28SArnd Bergmann depends on !(PAGE_SIZE_64KB || ARM64_64K_PAGES || \ 536fbdf0e28SArnd Bergmann IA64_PAGE_SIZE_64KB || MICROBLAZE_64K_PAGES || \ 537fbdf0e28SArnd Bergmann PARISC_PAGE_SIZE_64KB || PPC_64K_PAGES) 538d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara help 539d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara This driver supports VMware's vmxnet3 virtual ethernet NIC. 540d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 541d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara module will be called vmxnet3. 542d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara 543658d439bSTaku Izumiconfig FUJITSU_ES 544658d439bSTaku Izumi tristate "FUJITSU Extended Socket Network Device driver" 545658d439bSTaku Izumi depends on ACPI 546658d439bSTaku Izumi help 547658d439bSTaku Izumi This driver provides support for Extended Socket network device 548658d439bSTaku Izumi on Extended Partitioning of FUJITSU PRIMEQUEST 2000 E2 series. 549658d439bSTaku Izumi 550690ac0d2SMika Westerbergconfig USB4_NET 551690ac0d2SMika Westerberg tristate "Networking over USB4 and Thunderbolt cables" 552690ac0d2SMika Westerberg depends on USB4 && INET 553e69b6c02SAmir Levy help 554690ac0d2SMika Westerberg Select this if you want to create network between two computers 555690ac0d2SMika Westerberg over a USB4 and Thunderbolt cables. The driver supports Apple 556e69b6c02SAmir Levy ThunderboltIP protocol and allows communication with any host 557e69b6c02SAmir Levy supporting the same protocol including Windows and macOS. 558e69b6c02SAmir Levy 559e69b6c02SAmir Levy To compile this driver a module, choose M here. The module will be 560e69b6c02SAmir Levy called thunderbolt-net. 561e69b6c02SAmir Levy 56295fa0405SHaiyang Zhangsource "drivers/net/hyperv/Kconfig" 56395fa0405SHaiyang Zhang 56483c9e13aSJakub Kicinskiconfig NETDEVSIM 56583c9e13aSJakub Kicinski tristate "Simulated networking device" 56683c9e13aSJakub Kicinski depends on DEBUG_FS 5671f399fc7SHongbo Yao depends on INET 56848bb9eb4SIdo Schimmel depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n 569f6b19b35SJiri Pirko select NET_DEVLINK 57083c9e13aSJakub Kicinski help 57183c9e13aSJakub Kicinski This driver is a developer testing tool and software model that can 57283c9e13aSJakub Kicinski be used to test various control path networking APIs, especially 57383c9e13aSJakub Kicinski HW-offload related. 57483c9e13aSJakub Kicinski 57583c9e13aSJakub Kicinski To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 57683c9e13aSJakub Kicinski will be called netdevsim. 57783c9e13aSJakub Kicinski 578cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudralaconfig NET_FAILOVER 579cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala tristate "Failover driver" 580cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala select FAILOVER 581cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala help 582cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala This provides an automated failover mechanism via APIs to create 583cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala and destroy a failover master netdev and manages a primary and 584cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala standby slave netdevs that get registered via the generic failover 585cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala infrastructure. This can be used by paravirtual drivers to enable 586cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala an alternate low latency datapath. It also enables live migration of 587cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala a VM with direct attached VF by failing over to the paravirtual 588cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala datapath when the VF is unplugged. 589cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala 590d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardtendif # NETDEVICES 591