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 79e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 80e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select DST_CACHE 81e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO 82e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_LIB_CURVE25519 83e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_LIB_CHACHA20POLY1305 84e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_LIB_BLAKE2S 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 89d7c68a38SJason A. Donenfeld select ARM_CRYPTO if ARM 90d7c68a38SJason A. Donenfeld select ARM64_CRYPTO if ARM64 91bce24739SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_CHACHA20_NEON if ARM || (ARM64 && KERNEL_MODE_NEON) 92e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_POLY1305_NEON if ARM64 && KERNEL_MODE_NEON 93e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_POLY1305_ARM if ARM 94a64bfe7aSEric Biggers select CRYPTO_BLAKE2S_ARM if ARM 95e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_CURVE25519_NEON if ARM && KERNEL_MODE_NEON 96e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld select CRYPTO_CHACHA_MIPS if CPU_MIPS32_R2 976c810cf2SMaciej W. Rozycki select CRYPTO_POLY1305_MIPS if MIPS 98e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld help 99e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld WireGuard is a secure, fast, and easy to use replacement for IPSec 100e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld that uses modern cryptography and clever networking tricks. It's 101e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld designed to be fairly general purpose and abstract enough to fit most 102e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld use cases, while at the same time remaining extremely simple to 103e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld configure. See www.wireguard.com for more info. 104e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld 105e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld It's safe to say Y or M here, as the driver is very lightweight and 106e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld is only in use when an administrator chooses to add an interface. 107e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld 108e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeldconfig WIREGUARD_DEBUG 109e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld bool "Debugging checks and verbose messages" 110e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld depends on WIREGUARD 111e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld help 112e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld This will write log messages for handshake and other events 113e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld that occur for a WireGuard interface. It will also perform some 114e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld extra validation checks and unit tests at various points. This is 115e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld only useful for debugging. 116e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld 117e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld Say N here unless you know what you're doing. 118e7096c13SJason A. Donenfeld 11988491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig EQUALIZER 12088491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate "EQL (serial line load balancing) support" 121a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 12288491d81SJeff Kirsher If you have two serial connections to some other computer (this 12388491d81SJeff Kirsher usually requires two modems and two telephone lines) and you use 12488491d81SJeff Kirsher SLIP (the protocol for sending Internet traffic over telephone 12588491d81SJeff Kirsher lines) or PPP (a better SLIP) on them, you can make them behave like 12688491d81SJeff Kirsher one double speed connection using this driver. Naturally, this has 12788491d81SJeff Kirsher to be supported at the other end as well, either with a similar EQL 12888491d81SJeff Kirsher Linux driver or with a Livingston Portmaster 2e. 1291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13088491d81SJeff Kirsher Say Y if you want this and read 13106df6572SMauro Carvalho Chehab <file:Documentation/networking/eql.rst>. You may also want to read 13288491d81SJeff Kirsher section 6.2 of the NET-3-HOWTO, available from 13388491d81SJeff Kirsher <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1351da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 13688491d81SJeff Kirsher will be called eql. If unsure, say N. 13788491d81SJeff Kirsher 13888491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NET_FC 13988491d81SJeff Kirsher bool "Fibre Channel driver support" 14088491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on SCSI && PCI 14188491d81SJeff Kirsher help 14288491d81SJeff Kirsher Fibre Channel is a high speed serial protocol mainly used to connect 14388491d81SJeff Kirsher large storage devices to the computer; it is compatible with and 14488491d81SJeff Kirsher intended to replace SCSI. 14588491d81SJeff Kirsher 14688491d81SJeff Kirsher If you intend to use Fibre Channel, you need to have a Fibre channel 14788491d81SJeff Kirsher adaptor card in your computer; say Y here and to the driver for your 14888491d81SJeff Kirsher adaptor below. You also should have said Y to "SCSI support" and 14988491d81SJeff Kirsher "SCSI generic support". 15088491d81SJeff Kirsher 15188491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig IFB 15288491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate "Intermediate Functional Block support" 15388491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on NET_CLS_ACT 1542c64605bSPablo Neira Ayuso select NET_REDIRECT 155a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 15688491d81SJeff Kirsher This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of 15788491d81SJeff Kirsher resources. 15888491d81SJeff Kirsher To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 15988491d81SJeff Kirsher will be called ifb. If you want to use more than one ifb 16088491d81SJeff Kirsher device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module. 16188491d81SJeff Kirsher Instead of 'ifb', the devices will then be called 'ifb0', 16288491d81SJeff Kirsher 'ifb1' etc. 16388491d81SJeff Kirsher Look at the iproute2 documentation directory for usage etc 1641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1653d249d4cSJiri Pirkosource "drivers/net/team/Kconfig" 1663d249d4cSJiri Pirko 167b863ceb7SPatrick McHardyconfig MACVLAN 168bd085b93SKees Cook tristate "MAC-VLAN support" 169a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 170b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to 171b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface. 172b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy 1733dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy Macvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the 1743dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-2.6.23 release: 1753dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy 1763dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy "ip link add link <real dev> [ address MAC ] [ NAME ] type macvlan" 1773dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy 178b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 179b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy will be called macvlan. 180b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy 18120d29d7aSArnd Bergmannconfig MACVTAP 182bd085b93SKees Cook tristate "MAC-VLAN based tap driver" 18320d29d7aSArnd Bergmann depends on MACVLAN 184de11b0e8SBen Hutchings depends on INET 1859a393b5dSSainath Grandhi select TAP 18620d29d7aSArnd Bergmann help 18720d29d7aSArnd Bergmann This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based 18820d29d7aSArnd Bergmann on the MAC-VLAN network interface, called macvtap. A macvtap device 18920d29d7aSArnd Bergmann can be added in the same way as a macvlan device, using 'type 190c7966b52SJan Luebbe macvtap', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface. 19120d29d7aSArnd Bergmann 19220d29d7aSArnd Bergmann To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 19320d29d7aSArnd Bergmann will be called macvtap. 19420d29d7aSArnd Bergmann 195c675e06aSDaniel Borkmannconfig IPVLAN_L3S 196c675e06aSDaniel Borkmann depends on NETFILTER 197a37d45b6SRandy Dunlap depends on IPVLAN 198c675e06aSDaniel Borkmann def_bool y 199c675e06aSDaniel Borkmann select NET_L3_MASTER_DEV 2002ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 2012ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewarconfig IPVLAN 2022ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar tristate "IP-VLAN support" 203265de6d1SMahesh Bandewar depends on INET 2047f897db3SArnd Bergmann depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 205a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2062ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar This allows one to create virtual devices off of a main interface 2072ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar and packets will be delivered based on the dest L3 (IPv6/IPv4 addr) 2082ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar on packets. All interfaces (including the main interface) share L2 2092ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar making it transparent to the connected L2 switch. 2102ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 2112ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar Ipvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the 212f4c2b7a0SMahesh Bandewar iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-3.19 release: 2132ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 2142ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar "ip link add link <main-dev> [ NAME ] type ipvlan" 2152ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 2162ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2172ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar will be called ipvlan. 2182ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 219235a9d89SSainath Grandhiconfig IPVTAP 220235a9d89SSainath Grandhi tristate "IP-VLAN based tap driver" 221235a9d89SSainath Grandhi depends on IPVLAN 222235a9d89SSainath Grandhi depends on INET 223235a9d89SSainath Grandhi select TAP 224a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 225235a9d89SSainath Grandhi This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based 226235a9d89SSainath Grandhi on the IP-VLAN network interface, called ipvtap. An ipvtap device 227235a9d89SSainath Grandhi can be added in the same way as a ipvlan device, using 'type 228235a9d89SSainath Grandhi ipvtap', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface. 229235a9d89SSainath Grandhi 230235a9d89SSainath Grandhi To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 231235a9d89SSainath Grandhi will be called ipvtap. 2322ad7bf36SMahesh Bandewar 233d342894cSstephen hemmingerconfig VXLAN 234d342894cSstephen hemminger tristate "Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN)" 235c9b20a5eSKees Cook depends on INET 2363ee64f39STom Herbert select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 23797e219b7SEric Dumazet select GRO_CELLS 238a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 239d342894cSstephen hemminger This allows one to create vxlan virtual interfaces that provide 240d342894cSstephen hemminger Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. VXLAN is often used 241d342894cSstephen hemminger to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments. 242d342894cSstephen hemminger For more information see: 243d342894cSstephen hemminger http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-02 244d342894cSstephen hemminger 245d342894cSstephen hemminger To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 246d342894cSstephen hemminger will be called vxlan. 247d342894cSstephen hemminger 2482d07dc79SJohn W. Linvilleconfig GENEVE 249371bd106SPravin B Shelar tristate "Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation" 250a7603ac1SMatteo Croce depends on INET 251094be092STobias Regnery depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 252a7603ac1SMatteo Croce select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 25397e219b7SEric Dumazet select GRO_CELLS 254a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 2552d07dc79SJohn W. Linville This allows one to create geneve virtual interfaces that provide 2562d07dc79SJohn W. Linville Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. GENEVE is often used 2572d07dc79SJohn W. Linville to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments. 2582d07dc79SJohn W. Linville For more information see: 2592d07dc79SJohn W. Linville http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gross-geneve-02 2602d07dc79SJohn W. Linville 2612d07dc79SJohn W. Linville To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2622d07dc79SJohn W. Linville will be called geneve. 2632d07dc79SJohn W. Linville 264571912c6SMartin Vargheseconfig BAREUDP 265571912c6SMartin Varghese tristate "Bare UDP Encapsulation" 266571912c6SMartin Varghese depends on INET 267571912c6SMartin Varghese depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 268571912c6SMartin Varghese select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 269571912c6SMartin Varghese select GRO_CELLS 270571912c6SMartin Varghese help 271571912c6SMartin Varghese This adds a bare UDP tunnel module for tunnelling different 272571912c6SMartin Varghese kinds of traffic like MPLS, IP, etc. inside a UDP tunnel. 273571912c6SMartin Varghese 274571912c6SMartin Varghese To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 275571912c6SMartin Varghese will be called bareudp. 276571912c6SMartin Varghese 277459aa660SPablo Neiraconfig GTP 278459aa660SPablo Neira tristate "GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U)" 279c22da366SMatteo Croce depends on INET 280c22da366SMatteo Croce select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 281a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 282459aa660SPablo Neira This allows one to create gtp virtual interfaces that provide 283459aa660SPablo Neira the GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U). This tunneling protocol 284459aa660SPablo Neira is used to prevent subscribers from accessing mobile carrier core 285459aa660SPablo Neira network infrastructure. This driver requires a userspace software that 286459aa660SPablo Neira implements the signaling protocol (GTP-C) to update its PDP context 287459aa660SPablo Neira base, such as OpenGGSN <http://git.osmocom.org/openggsn/). This 288459aa660SPablo Neira tunneling protocol is implemented according to the GSM TS 09.60 and 289459aa660SPablo Neira 3GPP TS 29.060 standards. 290459aa660SPablo Neira 291459aa660SPablo Neira To compile this drivers as a module, choose M here: the module 29200649542SColin Ian King will be called gtp. 293459aa660SPablo Neira 294c09440f7SSabrina Dubrocaconfig MACSEC 295c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca tristate "IEEE 802.1AE MAC-level encryption (MACsec)" 296ab2ed017SArnd Bergmann select CRYPTO 297c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca select CRYPTO_AES 298c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca select CRYPTO_GCM 29997e219b7SEric Dumazet select GRO_CELLS 300a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 301c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca MACsec is an encryption standard for Ethernet. 302c09440f7SSabrina Dubroca 30388491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NETCONSOLE 30488491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate "Network console logging support" 305a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 30688491d81SJeff Kirsher If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this. 307d9d6ef25SMauro Carvalho Chehab See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst> for details. 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30988491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC 31088491d81SJeff Kirsher bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets" 31188491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && CONFIGFS_FS && \ 31288491d81SJeff Kirsher !(NETCONSOLE=y && CONFIGFS_FS=m) 31388491d81SJeff Kirsher help 31488491d81SJeff Kirsher This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target 31588491d81SJeff Kirsher parameters (interface, IP addresses, port numbers, MAC addresses) 31688491d81SJeff Kirsher at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs. 317d9d6ef25SMauro Carvalho Chehab See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst> for details. 3181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 31988491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NETPOLL 32088491d81SJeff Kirsher def_bool NETCONSOLE 32183fe27eaSPranith Kumar select SRCU 32288491d81SJeff Kirsher 32388491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NET_POLL_CONTROLLER 32488491d81SJeff Kirsher def_bool NETPOLL 32588491d81SJeff Kirsher 326548c237cSJon Masonconfig NTB_NETDEV 327ec110bc7SAllen Hubbe tristate "Virtual Ethernet over NTB Transport" 328ec110bc7SAllen Hubbe depends on NTB_TRANSPORT 329548c237cSJon Mason 33088491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig RIONET 33188491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support" 33288491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on RAPIDIO 33388491d81SJeff Kirsher 33488491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig RIONET_TX_SIZE 33588491d81SJeff Kirsher int "Number of outbound queue entries" 33688491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on RIONET 33788491d81SJeff Kirsher default "128" 33888491d81SJeff Kirsher 33988491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig RIONET_RX_SIZE 34088491d81SJeff Kirsher int "Number of inbound queue entries" 34188491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on RIONET 34288491d81SJeff Kirsher default "128" 3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TUN 3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support" 346de11b0e8SBen Hutchings depends on INET 3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 348a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space 3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet 3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media, 3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds receives them from user space program and instead of sending packets 3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds via physical media writes them to the user space program. 3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3551da177e4SLinus Torvalds When a program opens /dev/net/tun, driver creates and registers 3561da177e4SLinus Torvalds corresponding net device tunX or tapX. After a program closed above 3571da177e4SLinus Torvalds devices, driver will automatically delete tunXX or tapXX device and 3581da177e4SLinus Torvalds all routes corresponding to it. 3591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 360973d55e5SMauro Carvalho Chehab Please read <file:Documentation/networking/tuntap.rst> for more 3611da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. 3621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3631da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 3641da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called tun. 3651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3661da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what to use this for, you don't need it. 3671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3689a393b5dSSainath Grandhiconfig TAP 3699a393b5dSSainath Grandhi tristate 370a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3719a393b5dSSainath Grandhi This option is selected by any driver implementing tap user space 3729a393b5dSSainath Grandhi interface for a virtual interface to re-use core tap functionality. 3739a393b5dSSainath Grandhi 3748b8e658bSGreg Kurzconfig TUN_VNET_CROSS_LE 3758b8e658bSGreg Kurz bool "Support for cross-endian vnet headers on little-endian kernels" 3768b8e658bSGreg Kurz default n 377a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3788b8e658bSGreg Kurz This option allows TUN/TAP and MACVTAP device drivers in a 3798b8e658bSGreg Kurz little-endian kernel to parse vnet headers that come from a 3808b8e658bSGreg Kurz big-endian legacy virtio device. 3818b8e658bSGreg Kurz 3828b8e658bSGreg Kurz Userspace programs can control the feature using the TUNSETVNETBE 3838b8e658bSGreg Kurz and TUNGETVNETBE ioctls. 3848b8e658bSGreg Kurz 3858b8e658bSGreg Kurz Unless you have a little-endian system hosting a big-endian virtual 3868b8e658bSGreg Kurz machine with a legacy virtio NIC, you should say N. 3878b8e658bSGreg Kurz 388e314dbdcSPavel Emelyanovconfig VETH 3896a9a0250SRusty Russell tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device" 390a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 3916a9a0250SRusty Russell This device is a local ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs. 3926a9a0250SRusty Russell When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice 3936a9a0250SRusty Russell versa. 394e314dbdcSPavel Emelyanov 39588491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig VIRTIO_NET 396bd085b93SKees Cook tristate "Virtio network driver" 397bd085b93SKees Cook depends on VIRTIO 398ba5e4426SSridhar Samudrala select NET_FAILOVER 399a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 40088491d81SJeff Kirsher This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with 401ecda85e7SJuergen Gross QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M. 40288491d81SJeff Kirsher 403e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmannconfig NLMON 404e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann tristate "Virtual netlink monitoring device" 405a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 406e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann This option enables a monitoring net device for netlink skbs. The 407e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann purpose of this is to analyze netlink messages with packet sockets. 408e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann Thus applications like tcpdump will be able to see local netlink 409e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann messages if they tap into the netlink device, record pcaps for further 410e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann diagnostics, etc. This is mostly intended for developers or support 411e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann to debug netlink issues. If unsure, say N. 412e4fc408eSDaniel Borkmann 413193125dbSDavid Ahernconfig NET_VRF 414193125dbSDavid Ahern tristate "Virtual Routing and Forwarding (Lite)" 41535402e31SDavid Ahern depends on IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES 416ee15ee5dSDavid Ahern depends on NET_L3_MASTER_DEV 41735402e31SDavid Ahern depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n 41835402e31SDavid Ahern depends on IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES || IPV6=n 419a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 420193125dbSDavid Ahern This option enables the support for mapping interfaces into VRF's. The 421193125dbSDavid Ahern support enables VRF devices. 422193125dbSDavid Ahern 4230b2e6644SGerard Garciaconfig VSOCKMON 4240b2e6644SGerard Garcia tristate "Virtual vsock monitoring device" 4250b2e6644SGerard Garcia depends on VHOST_VSOCK 426a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4270b2e6644SGerard Garcia This option enables a monitoring net device for vsock sockets. It is 4280b2e6644SGerard Garcia mostly intended for developers or support to debug vsock issues. If 4290b2e6644SGerard Garcia unsure, say N. 4300b2e6644SGerard Garcia 4313ffec6a1SLoic Poulainconfig MHI_NET 4323ffec6a1SLoic Poulain tristate "MHI network driver" 4333ffec6a1SLoic Poulain depends on MHI_BUS 4343ffec6a1SLoic Poulain help 4353ffec6a1SLoic Poulain This is the network driver for MHI bus. It can be used with 4367ffa7542SLoic Poulain QCOM based WWAN modems for IP or QMAP/rmnet protocol (like SDX55). 4377ffa7542SLoic Poulain Say Y or M. 4383ffec6a1SLoic Poulain 43988491d81SJeff Kirsherendif # NET_CORE 44088491d81SJeff Kirsher 44188491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig SUNGEM_PHY 44288491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate 44388491d81SJeff Kirsher 44488491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig" 44588491d81SJeff Kirsher 44688491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/atm/Kconfig" 44788491d81SJeff Kirsher 44888491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/caif/Kconfig" 44988491d81SJeff Kirsher 4503b158859SBen Hutchingssource "drivers/net/dsa/Kconfig" 4513b158859SBen Hutchings 45288491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig" 45388491d81SJeff Kirsher 45488491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig" 45588491d81SJeff Kirsher 456fecc7351SPaul Bollesource "drivers/net/hippi/Kconfig" 457fecc7351SPaul Bolle 45808120d23SAlex Eldersource "drivers/net/ipa/Kconfig" 45908120d23SAlex Elder 4601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_SB1000 4611da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000" 462cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap depends on PNP 463a7f7f624SMasahiro Yamada help 4641da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as 4651da177e4SLinus Torvalds NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal 4661da177e4SLinus Torvalds cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable 4671da177e4SLinus Torvalds TV companies to provide cable modem access. It's a one-way 4681da177e4SLinus Torvalds downstream-only cable modem, meaning that your upstream net link is 4691da177e4SLinus Torvalds provided by your regular phone modem. 4701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4711da177e4SLinus Torvalds At present this driver only compiles as a module, so say M here if 4721da177e4SLinus Torvalds you have this card. The module will be called sb1000. Then read 473132db935SJakub Kicinski <file:Documentation/networking/device_drivers/cable/sb1000.rst> for 474b255e500SJakub Kicinski information on how to use this module, as it needs special ppp 475b255e500SJakub Kicinski scripts for establishing a connection. Further documentation 476b255e500SJakub Kicinski and the necessary scripts can be found at: 4771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4781da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.jacksonville.net/~fventuri/> 4791da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/sb1000.html> 4801da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://linuxpower.cx/~cable/> 4811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4821da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't have this card, of course say N. 4831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 48400db8189SAndy Flemingsource "drivers/net/phy/Kconfig" 48500db8189SAndy Fleming 4864b2e6930SJeremy Kerrsource "drivers/net/mctp/Kconfig" 4874b2e6930SJeremy Kerr 488a9770eacSAndrew Lunnsource "drivers/net/mdio/Kconfig" 489a9770eacSAndrew Lunn 4902fa4e4b7SAndrew Lunnsource "drivers/net/pcs/Kconfig" 4912fa4e4b7SAndrew Lunn 49218e635f4SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/plip/Kconfig" 49318e635f4SJeff Kirsher 49488491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/ppp/Kconfig" 49588491d81SJeff Kirsher 496b5451d78SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/slip/Kconfig" 497b5451d78SJeff Kirsher 49888491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig" 49988491d81SJeff Kirsher 50088491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig" 50188491d81SJeff Kirsher 5021da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig" 5031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5041da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig" 5051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5060739d643Salex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.comsource "drivers/net/ieee802154/Kconfig" 5070739d643Salex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com 5089a44c1ccSLoic Poulainsource "drivers/net/wwan/Kconfig" 5099a44c1ccSLoic Poulain 5100d160211SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND 5110d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge tristate "Xen network device frontend driver" 5120d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on XEN 5137003087cSJeremy Fitzhardinge select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND 5146c5aa6fcSDenis Kirjanov select PAGE_POOL 5150d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 5160d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge help 517f942dc25SIan Campbell This driver provides support for Xen paravirtual network 518f942dc25SIan Campbell devices exported by a Xen network driver domain (often 519f942dc25SIan Campbell domain 0). 520f942dc25SIan Campbell 521f942dc25SIan Campbell The corresponding Linux backend driver is enabled by the 522f942dc25SIan Campbell CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND option. 523f942dc25SIan Campbell 524f942dc25SIan Campbell If you are compiling a kernel for use as Xen guest, you 525f942dc25SIan Campbell should say Y here. To compile this driver as a module, chose 526f942dc25SIan Campbell M here: the module will be called xen-netfront. 527f942dc25SIan Campbell 528f942dc25SIan Campbellconfig XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND 529f942dc25SIan Campbell tristate "Xen backend network device" 530f942dc25SIan Campbell depends on XEN_BACKEND 531f942dc25SIan Campbell help 532f942dc25SIan Campbell This driver allows the kernel to act as a Xen network driver 533f942dc25SIan Campbell domain which exports paravirtual network devices to other 534f942dc25SIan Campbell Xen domains. These devices can be accessed by any operating 535f942dc25SIan Campbell system that implements a compatible front end. 536f942dc25SIan Campbell 537f942dc25SIan Campbell The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the 538f942dc25SIan Campbell CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND configuration option. 539f942dc25SIan Campbell 540f942dc25SIan Campbell The backend driver presents a standard network device 541f942dc25SIan Campbell endpoint for each paravirtual network device to the driver 542f942dc25SIan Campbell domain network stack. These can then be bridged or routed 543f942dc25SIan Campbell etc in order to provide full network connectivity. 544f942dc25SIan Campbell 545f942dc25SIan Campbell If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen network driver 546f942dc25SIan Campbell domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To 547f942dc25SIan Campbell compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module 548f942dc25SIan Campbell will be called xen-netback. 5490d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge 550d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewaraconfig VMXNET3 551d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara tristate "VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver" 552115924b6SShreyas Bhatewara depends on PCI && INET 553fbdf0e28SArnd Bergmann depends on !(PAGE_SIZE_64KB || ARM64_64K_PAGES || \ 554*4fb464dbSLukas Bulwahn IA64_PAGE_SIZE_64KB || PARISC_PAGE_SIZE_64KB || \ 555*4fb464dbSLukas Bulwahn PPC_64K_PAGES) 556d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara help 557d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara This driver supports VMware's vmxnet3 virtual ethernet NIC. 558d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 559d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara module will be called vmxnet3. 560d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara 561658d439bSTaku Izumiconfig FUJITSU_ES 562658d439bSTaku Izumi tristate "FUJITSU Extended Socket Network Device driver" 563658d439bSTaku Izumi depends on ACPI 564658d439bSTaku Izumi help 565658d439bSTaku Izumi This driver provides support for Extended Socket network device 566658d439bSTaku Izumi on Extended Partitioning of FUJITSU PRIMEQUEST 2000 E2 series. 567658d439bSTaku Izumi 568690ac0d2SMika Westerbergconfig USB4_NET 569690ac0d2SMika Westerberg tristate "Networking over USB4 and Thunderbolt cables" 570690ac0d2SMika Westerberg depends on USB4 && INET 571e69b6c02SAmir Levy help 572690ac0d2SMika Westerberg Select this if you want to create network between two computers 573690ac0d2SMika Westerberg over a USB4 and Thunderbolt cables. The driver supports Apple 574e69b6c02SAmir Levy ThunderboltIP protocol and allows communication with any host 575e69b6c02SAmir Levy supporting the same protocol including Windows and macOS. 576e69b6c02SAmir Levy 577e69b6c02SAmir Levy To compile this driver a module, choose M here. The module will be 578e69b6c02SAmir Levy called thunderbolt-net. 579e69b6c02SAmir Levy 58095fa0405SHaiyang Zhangsource "drivers/net/hyperv/Kconfig" 58195fa0405SHaiyang Zhang 58283c9e13aSJakub Kicinskiconfig NETDEVSIM 58383c9e13aSJakub Kicinski tristate "Simulated networking device" 58483c9e13aSJakub Kicinski depends on DEBUG_FS 5851f399fc7SHongbo Yao depends on INET 58648bb9eb4SIdo Schimmel depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n 587a8700c3dSIdo Schimmel depends on PSAMPLE || PSAMPLE=n 588f6b19b35SJiri Pirko select NET_DEVLINK 58983c9e13aSJakub Kicinski help 59083c9e13aSJakub Kicinski This driver is a developer testing tool and software model that can 59183c9e13aSJakub Kicinski be used to test various control path networking APIs, especially 59283c9e13aSJakub Kicinski HW-offload related. 59383c9e13aSJakub Kicinski 59483c9e13aSJakub Kicinski To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 59583c9e13aSJakub Kicinski will be called netdevsim. 59683c9e13aSJakub Kicinski 597cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudralaconfig NET_FAILOVER 598cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala tristate "Failover driver" 599cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala select FAILOVER 600cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala help 601cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala This provides an automated failover mechanism via APIs to create 602cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala and destroy a failover master netdev and manages a primary and 603cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala standby slave netdevs that get registered via the generic failover 604cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala infrastructure. This can be used by paravirtual drivers to enable 605cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala an alternate low latency datapath. It also enables live migration of 606cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala a VM with direct attached VF by failing over to the paravirtual 607cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala datapath when the VF is unplugged. 608cfc80d9aSSridhar Samudrala 6094228c394SArnd Bergmannconfig NETDEV_LEGACY_INIT 6104228c394SArnd Bergmann bool 6114228c394SArnd Bergmann depends on ISA 6124228c394SArnd Bergmann help 6134228c394SArnd Bergmann Drivers that call netdev_boot_setup_check() should select this 6144228c394SArnd Bergmann symbol, everything else no longer needs it. 6154228c394SArnd Bergmann 616d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardtendif # NETDEVICES 617