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 152*2c64605bSPablo Neira Ayuso select NET_REDIRECT 15388491d81SJeff Kirsher ---help--- 15488491d81SJeff Kirsher This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of 15588491d81SJeff Kirsher resources. 15688491d81SJeff Kirsher To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 15788491d81SJeff Kirsher will be called ifb. If you want to use more than one ifb 15888491d81SJeff Kirsher device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module. 15988491d81SJeff Kirsher Instead of 'ifb', the devices will then be called 'ifb0', 16088491d81SJeff Kirsher 'ifb1' etc. 16188491d81SJeff Kirsher Look at the iproute2 documentation directory for usage etc 1621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1633d249d4cSJiri Pirkosource "drivers/net/team/Kconfig" 1643d249d4cSJiri Pirko 165b863ceb7SPatrick McHardyconfig MACVLAN 166bd085b93SKees Cook tristate "MAC-VLAN support" 167b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy ---help--- 168b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to 169b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface. 170b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy 1713dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy Macvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the 1723dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-2.6.23 release: 1733dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy 1743dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy "ip link add link <real dev> [ address MAC ] [ NAME ] type macvlan" 1753dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy 176b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 177b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy will be called macvlan. 178b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy 17920d29d7aSArnd Bergmannconfig MACVTAP 180bd085b93SKees Cook tristate "MAC-VLAN based tap driver" 18120d29d7aSArnd Bergmann depends on MACVLAN 182de11b0e8SBen Hutchings depends on INET 1839a393b5dSSainath Grandhi select TAP 18420d29d7aSArnd Bergmann help 18520d29d7aSArnd Bergmann This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based 18620d29d7aSArnd Bergmann on the MAC-VLAN network interface, called macvtap. A macvtap device 18720d29d7aSArnd Bergmann can be added in the same way as a macvlan device, using 'type 188c7966b52SJan Luebbe macvtap', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface. 18920d29d7aSArnd Bergmann 19020d29d7aSArnd Bergmann To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 19120d29d7aSArnd Bergmann will be called macvtap. 19220d29d7aSArnd Bergmann 193c675e06aSDaniel Borkmannconfig IPVLAN_L3S 194c675e06aSDaniel Borkmann depends on NETFILTER 195a37d45b6SRandy Dunlap depends on IPVLAN 196c675e06aSDaniel Borkmann def_bool y 197c675e06aSDaniel Borkmann select NET_L3_MASTER_DEV 1982ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 1992ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewarconfig IPVLAN 2002ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar tristate "IP-VLAN support" 201265de6d1SMahesh Bandewar depends on INET 2027f897db3SArnd Bergmann depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 2032ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar ---help--- 2042ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar This allows one to create virtual devices off of a main interface 2052ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar and packets will be delivered based on the dest L3 (IPv6/IPv4 addr) 2062ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar on packets. All interfaces (including the main interface) share L2 2072ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar making it transparent to the connected L2 switch. 2082ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 2092ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar Ipvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the 210f4c2b7a0SMahesh Bandewar iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-3.19 release: 2112ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 2122ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar "ip link add link <main-dev> [ NAME ] type ipvlan" 2132ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 2142ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2152ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar will be called ipvlan. 2162ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 217235a9d89SSainath Grandhiconfig IPVTAP 218235a9d89SSainath Grandhi tristate "IP-VLAN based tap driver" 219235a9d89SSainath Grandhi depends on IPVLAN 220235a9d89SSainath Grandhi depends on INET 221235a9d89SSainath Grandhi select TAP 222235a9d89SSainath Grandhi ---help--- 223235a9d89SSainath Grandhi This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based 224235a9d89SSainath Grandhi on the IP-VLAN network interface, called ipvtap. An ipvtap device 225235a9d89SSainath Grandhi can be added in the same way as a ipvlan device, using 'type 226235a9d89SSainath Grandhi ipvtap', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface. 227235a9d89SSainath Grandhi 228235a9d89SSainath Grandhi To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 229235a9d89SSainath Grandhi will be called ipvtap. 2302ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 231d342894cSstephen hemmingerconfig VXLAN 232d342894cSstephen hemminger tristate "Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN)" 233c9b20a5eSKees Cook depends on INET 2343ee64f39STom Herbert select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 23597e219b7SEric Dumazet select GRO_CELLS 236d342894cSstephen hemminger ---help--- 237d342894cSstephen hemminger This allows one to create vxlan virtual interfaces that provide 238d342894cSstephen hemminger Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. VXLAN is often used 239d342894cSstephen hemminger to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments. 240d342894cSstephen hemminger For more information see: 241d342894cSstephen hemminger http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-02 242d342894cSstephen hemminger 243d342894cSstephen hemminger To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 244d342894cSstephen hemminger will be called vxlan. 245d342894cSstephen hemminger 2462d07dc79SJohn W. Linvilleconfig GENEVE 247371bd106SPravin B Shelar tristate "Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation" 248a7603ac1SMatteo Croce depends on INET 249094be092STobias Regnery depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 250a7603ac1SMatteo Croce select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 25197e219b7SEric Dumazet select GRO_CELLS 2522d07dc79SJohn W. Linville ---help--- 2532d07dc79SJohn W. Linville This allows one to create geneve virtual interfaces that provide 2542d07dc79SJohn W. Linville Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. GENEVE is often used 2552d07dc79SJohn W. Linville to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments. 2562d07dc79SJohn W. Linville For more information see: 2572d07dc79SJohn W. Linville http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gross-geneve-02 2582d07dc79SJohn W. Linville 2592d07dc79SJohn W. Linville To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2602d07dc79SJohn W. Linville will be called geneve. 2612d07dc79SJohn W. Linville 262459aa660SPablo Neiraconfig GTP 263459aa660SPablo Neira tristate "GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U)" 264c22da366SMatteo Croce depends on INET 265c22da366SMatteo Croce select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 266459aa660SPablo Neira ---help--- 267459aa660SPablo Neira This allows one to create gtp virtual interfaces that provide 268459aa660SPablo Neira the GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U). This tunneling protocol 269459aa660SPablo Neira is used to prevent subscribers from accessing mobile carrier core 270459aa660SPablo Neira network infrastructure. This driver requires a userspace software that 271459aa660SPablo Neira implements the signaling protocol (GTP-C) to update its PDP context 272459aa660SPablo Neira base, such as OpenGGSN <http://git.osmocom.org/openggsn/). This 273459aa660SPablo Neira tunneling protocol is implemented according to the GSM TS 09.60 and 274459aa660SPablo Neira 3GPP TS 29.060 standards. 275459aa660SPablo Neira 276459aa660SPablo Neira To compile this drivers as a module, choose M here: the module 277459aa660SPablo Neira wil be called gtp. 278459aa660SPablo Neira 279c09440f7SSabrina Dubrocaconfig MACSEC 280c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca tristate "IEEE 802.1AE MAC-level encryption (MACsec)" 281ab2ed017SArnd Bergmann select CRYPTO 282c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca select CRYPTO_AES 283c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca select CRYPTO_GCM 28497e219b7SEric Dumazet select GRO_CELLS 285c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca ---help--- 286c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca MACsec is an encryption standard for Ethernet. 287c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca 28888491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NETCONSOLE 28988491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate "Network console logging support" 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 29188491d81SJeff Kirsher If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this. 29288491d81SJeff Kirsher See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29488491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC 29588491d81SJeff Kirsher bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets" 29688491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && CONFIGFS_FS && \ 29788491d81SJeff Kirsher !(NETCONSOLE=y && CONFIGFS_FS=m) 29888491d81SJeff Kirsher help 29988491d81SJeff Kirsher This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target 30088491d81SJeff Kirsher parameters (interface, IP addresses, port numbers, MAC addresses) 30188491d81SJeff Kirsher at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs. 30288491d81SJeff Kirsher See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30488491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NETPOLL 30588491d81SJeff Kirsher def_bool NETCONSOLE 30683fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 30788491d81SJeff Kirsher 30888491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NET_POLL_CONTROLLER 30988491d81SJeff Kirsher def_bool NETPOLL 31088491d81SJeff Kirsher 311548c237cSJon Masonconfig NTB_NETDEV 312ec110bc7SAllen Hubbe tristate "Virtual Ethernet over NTB Transport" 313ec110bc7SAllen Hubbe depends on NTB_TRANSPORT 314548c237cSJon Mason 31588491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig RIONET 31688491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support" 31788491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on RAPIDIO 31888491d81SJeff Kirsher 31988491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig RIONET_TX_SIZE 32088491d81SJeff Kirsher int "Number of outbound queue entries" 32188491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on RIONET 32288491d81SJeff Kirsher default "128" 32388491d81SJeff Kirsher 32488491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig RIONET_RX_SIZE 32588491d81SJeff Kirsher int "Number of inbound queue entries" 32688491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on RIONET 32788491d81SJeff Kirsher default "128" 3281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TUN 3301da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support" 331de11b0e8SBen Hutchings depends on INET 3321da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 3331da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3341da177e4SLinus Torvalds TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space 3351da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet 3361da177e4SLinus Torvalds device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media, 3371da177e4SLinus Torvalds receives them from user space program and instead of sending packets 3381da177e4SLinus Torvalds via physical media writes them to the user space program. 3391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3401da177e4SLinus Torvalds When a program opens /dev/net/tun, driver creates and registers 3411da177e4SLinus Torvalds corresponding net device tunX or tapX. After a program closed above 3421da177e4SLinus Torvalds devices, driver will automatically delete tunXX or tapXX device and 3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds all routes corresponding to it. 3441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please read <file:Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt> for more 3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. 3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called tun. 3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what to use this for, you don't need it. 3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3539a393b5dSSainath Grandhiconfig TAP 3549a393b5dSSainath Grandhi tristate 3559a393b5dSSainath Grandhi ---help--- 3569a393b5dSSainath Grandhi This option is selected by any driver implementing tap user space 3579a393b5dSSainath Grandhi interface for a virtual interface to re-use core tap functionality. 3589a393b5dSSainath Grandhi 3598b8e658bSGreg Kurzconfig TUN_VNET_CROSS_LE 3608b8e658bSGreg Kurz bool "Support for cross-endian vnet headers on little-endian kernels" 3618b8e658bSGreg Kurz default n 3628b8e658bSGreg Kurz ---help--- 3638b8e658bSGreg Kurz This option allows TUN/TAP and MACVTAP device drivers in a 3648b8e658bSGreg Kurz little-endian kernel to parse vnet headers that come from a 3658b8e658bSGreg Kurz big-endian legacy virtio device. 3668b8e658bSGreg Kurz 3678b8e658bSGreg Kurz Userspace programs can control the feature using the TUNSETVNETBE 3688b8e658bSGreg Kurz and TUNGETVNETBE ioctls. 3698b8e658bSGreg Kurz 3708b8e658bSGreg Kurz Unless you have a little-endian system hosting a big-endian virtual 3718b8e658bSGreg Kurz machine with a legacy virtio NIC, you should say N. 3728b8e658bSGreg Kurz 373e314dbdcSPavel Emelyanovconfig VETH 3746a9a0250SRusty Russell tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device" 375e314dbdcSPavel Emelyanov ---help--- 3766a9a0250SRusty Russell This device is a local ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs. 3776a9a0250SRusty Russell When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice 3786a9a0250SRusty Russell versa. 379e314dbdcSPavel Emelyanov 38088491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig VIRTIO_NET 381bd085b93SKees Cook tristate "Virtio network driver" 382bd085b93SKees Cook depends on VIRTIO 383ba5e4426SSridhar Samudrala select NET_FAILOVER 38488491d81SJeff Kirsher ---help--- 38588491d81SJeff Kirsher This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with 386ecda85e7SJuergen Gross QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M. 38788491d81SJeff Kirsher 388e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmannconfig NLMON 389e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann tristate "Virtual netlink monitoring device" 390e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann ---help--- 391e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann This option enables a monitoring net device for netlink skbs. The 392e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann purpose of this is to analyze netlink messages with packet sockets. 393e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann Thus applications like tcpdump will be able to see local netlink 394e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann messages if they tap into the netlink device, record pcaps for further 395e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann diagnostics, etc. This is mostly intended for developers or support 396e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann to debug netlink issues. If unsure, say N. 397e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann 398193125dbSDavid Ahernconfig NET_VRF 399193125dbSDavid Ahern tristate "Virtual Routing and Forwarding (Lite)" 40035402e31SDavid Ahern depends on IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES 401ee15ee5dSDavid Ahern depends on NET_L3_MASTER_DEV 40235402e31SDavid Ahern depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n 40335402e31SDavid Ahern depends on IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES || IPV6=n 404193125dbSDavid Ahern ---help--- 405193125dbSDavid Ahern This option enables the support for mapping interfaces into VRF's. The 406193125dbSDavid Ahern support enables VRF devices. 407193125dbSDavid Ahern 4080b2e6644SGerard Garciaconfig VSOCKMON 4090b2e6644SGerard Garcia tristate "Virtual vsock monitoring device" 4100b2e6644SGerard Garcia depends on VHOST_VSOCK 4110b2e6644SGerard Garcia ---help--- 4120b2e6644SGerard Garcia This option enables a monitoring net device for vsock sockets. It is 4130b2e6644SGerard Garcia mostly intended for developers or support to debug vsock issues. If 4140b2e6644SGerard Garcia unsure, say N. 4150b2e6644SGerard Garcia 41688491d81SJeff Kirsherendif # NET_CORE 41788491d81SJeff Kirsher 41888491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig SUNGEM_PHY 41988491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate 42088491d81SJeff Kirsher 42188491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig" 42288491d81SJeff Kirsher 42388491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/atm/Kconfig" 42488491d81SJeff Kirsher 42588491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/caif/Kconfig" 42688491d81SJeff Kirsher 4273b158859SBen Hutchingssource "drivers/net/dsa/Kconfig" 4283b158859SBen Hutchings 42988491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig" 43088491d81SJeff Kirsher 43188491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig" 43288491d81SJeff Kirsher 433fecc7351SPaul Bollesource "drivers/net/hippi/Kconfig" 434fecc7351SPaul Bolle 4351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_SB1000 4361da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000" 437cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap depends on PNP 4381da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4391da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as 4401da177e4SLinus Torvalds NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal 4411da177e4SLinus Torvalds cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable 4421da177e4SLinus Torvalds TV companies to provide cable modem access. It's a one-way 4431da177e4SLinus Torvalds downstream-only cable modem, meaning that your upstream net link is 4441da177e4SLinus Torvalds provided by your regular phone modem. 4451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4461da177e4SLinus Torvalds At present this driver only compiles as a module, so say M here if 4471da177e4SLinus Torvalds you have this card. The module will be called sb1000. Then read 448b255e500SJakub Kicinski <file:Documentation/networking/device_drivers/sb1000.txt> for 449b255e500SJakub Kicinski information on how to use this module, as it needs special ppp 450b255e500SJakub Kicinski scripts for establishing a connection. Further documentation 451b255e500SJakub Kicinski and the necessary scripts can be found at: 4521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4531da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.jacksonville.net/~fventuri/> 4541da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/sb1000.html> 4551da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://linuxpower.cx/~cable/> 4561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4571da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't have this card, of course say N. 4581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 45900db8189SAndy Flemingsource "drivers/net/phy/Kconfig" 46000db8189SAndy Fleming 46118e635f4SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/plip/Kconfig" 46218e635f4SJeff Kirsher 46388491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/ppp/Kconfig" 46488491d81SJeff Kirsher 465b5451d78SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/slip/Kconfig" 466b5451d78SJeff Kirsher 46788491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig" 46888491d81SJeff Kirsher 46988491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig" 47088491d81SJeff Kirsher 4711da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig" 4721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 473143ee2d5SInaky Perez-Gonzalezsource "drivers/net/wimax/Kconfig" 474143ee2d5SInaky Perez-Gonzalez 4751da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig" 4761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4770739d643Salex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.comsource "drivers/net/ieee802154/Kconfig" 4780739d643Salex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com 4790d160211SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND 4800d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge tristate "Xen network device frontend driver" 4810d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on XEN 4827003087cSJeremy Fitzhardinge select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND 4830d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 4840d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge help 485f942dc25SIan Campbell This driver provides support for Xen paravirtual network 486f942dc25SIan Campbell devices exported by a Xen network driver domain (often 487f942dc25SIan Campbell domain 0). 488f942dc25SIan Campbell 489f942dc25SIan Campbell The corresponding Linux backend driver is enabled by the 490f942dc25SIan Campbell CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND option. 491f942dc25SIan Campbell 492f942dc25SIan Campbell If you are compiling a kernel for use as Xen guest, you 493f942dc25SIan Campbell should say Y here. To compile this driver as a module, chose 494f942dc25SIan Campbell M here: the module will be called xen-netfront. 495f942dc25SIan Campbell 496f942dc25SIan Campbellconfig XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND 497f942dc25SIan Campbell tristate "Xen backend network device" 498f942dc25SIan Campbell depends on XEN_BACKEND 499f942dc25SIan Campbell help 500f942dc25SIan Campbell This driver allows the kernel to act as a Xen network driver 501f942dc25SIan Campbell domain which exports paravirtual network devices to other 502f942dc25SIan Campbell Xen domains. These devices can be accessed by any operating 503f942dc25SIan Campbell system that implements a compatible front end. 504f942dc25SIan Campbell 505f942dc25SIan Campbell The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the 506f942dc25SIan Campbell CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND configuration option. 507f942dc25SIan Campbell 508f942dc25SIan Campbell The backend driver presents a standard network device 509f942dc25SIan Campbell endpoint for each paravirtual network device to the driver 510f942dc25SIan Campbell domain network stack. These can then be bridged or routed 511f942dc25SIan Campbell etc in order to provide full network connectivity. 512f942dc25SIan Campbell 513f942dc25SIan Campbell If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen network driver 514f942dc25SIan Campbell domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To 515f942dc25SIan Campbell compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module 516f942dc25SIan Campbell will be called xen-netback. 5170d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge 518d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewaraconfig VMXNET3 519d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara tristate "VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver" 520115924b6SShreyas Bhatewara depends on PCI && INET 521fbdf0e28SArnd Bergmann depends on !(PAGE_SIZE_64KB || ARM64_64K_PAGES || \ 522fbdf0e28SArnd Bergmann IA64_PAGE_SIZE_64KB || MICROBLAZE_64K_PAGES || \ 523fbdf0e28SArnd Bergmann PARISC_PAGE_SIZE_64KB || PPC_64K_PAGES) 524d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara help 525d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara This driver supports VMware's vmxnet3 virtual ethernet NIC. 526d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 527d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara module will be called vmxnet3. 528d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara 529658d439bSTaku Izumiconfig FUJITSU_ES 530658d439bSTaku Izumi tristate "FUJITSU Extended Socket Network Device driver" 531658d439bSTaku Izumi depends on ACPI 532658d439bSTaku Izumi help 533658d439bSTaku Izumi This driver provides support for Extended Socket network device 534658d439bSTaku Izumi on Extended Partitioning of FUJITSU PRIMEQUEST 2000 E2 series. 535658d439bSTaku Izumi 536690ac0d2SMika Westerbergconfig USB4_NET 537690ac0d2SMika Westerberg tristate "Networking over USB4 and Thunderbolt cables" 538690ac0d2SMika Westerberg depends on USB4 && INET 539e69b6c02SAmir Levy help 540690ac0d2SMika Westerberg Select this if you want to create network between two computers 541690ac0d2SMika Westerberg over a USB4 and Thunderbolt cables. The driver supports Apple 542e69b6c02SAmir Levy ThunderboltIP protocol and allows communication with any host 543e69b6c02SAmir Levy supporting the same protocol including Windows and macOS. 544e69b6c02SAmir Levy 545e69b6c02SAmir Levy To compile this driver a module, choose M here. The module will be 546e69b6c02SAmir Levy called thunderbolt-net. 547e69b6c02SAmir Levy 54895fa0405SHaiyang Zhangsource "drivers/net/hyperv/Kconfig" 54995fa0405SHaiyang Zhang 55083c9e13aSJakub Kicinskiconfig NETDEVSIM 55183c9e13aSJakub Kicinski tristate "Simulated networking device" 55283c9e13aSJakub Kicinski depends on DEBUG_FS 5531f399fc7SHongbo Yao depends on INET 55448bb9eb4SIdo Schimmel depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n 555f6b19b35SJiri Pirko select NET_DEVLINK 55683c9e13aSJakub Kicinski help 55783c9e13aSJakub Kicinski This driver is a developer testing tool and software model that can 55883c9e13aSJakub Kicinski be used to test various control path networking APIs, especially 55983c9e13aSJakub Kicinski HW-offload related. 56083c9e13aSJakub Kicinski 56183c9e13aSJakub Kicinski To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 56283c9e13aSJakub Kicinski will be called netdevsim. 56383c9e13aSJakub Kicinski 564cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudralaconfig NET_FAILOVER 565cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala tristate "Failover driver" 566cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala select FAILOVER 567cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala help 568cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala This provides an automated failover mechanism via APIs to create 569cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala and destroy a failover master netdev and manages a primary and 570cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala standby slave netdevs that get registered via the generic failover 571cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala infrastructure. This can be used by paravirtual drivers to enable 572cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala an alternate low latency datapath. It also enables live migration of 573cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala a VM with direct attached VF by failing over to the paravirtual 574cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala datapath when the VF is unplugged. 575cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala 576d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardtendif # NETDEVICES 577