11da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 21da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Network device configuration 31da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 41da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardtmenuconfig NETDEVICES 6ce2d2aedSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso default y if UML 7e0009820SJan Engelhardt depends on NET 81da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Network device support" 91da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 101da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can say N here if you don't intend to connect your Linux box to 111da177e4SLinus Torvalds any other computer at all. 121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 131da177e4SLinus Torvalds You'll have to say Y if your computer contains a network card that 141da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to use under Linux. If you are going to run SLIP or PPP over 151da177e4SLinus Torvalds telephone line or null modem cable you need say Y here. Connecting 161da177e4SLinus Torvalds two machines with parallel ports using PLIP needs this, as well as 171da177e4SLinus Torvalds AX.25/KISS for sending Internet traffic over amateur radio links. 181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 191da177e4SLinus Torvalds See also "The Linux Network Administrator's Guide" by Olaf Kirch and 201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Terry Dawson. Available at <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 221da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 241618cb0cSRandy Dunlap# All the following symbols are dependent on NETDEVICES - do not repeat 251618cb0cSRandy Dunlap# that for each of the symbols. 261618cb0cSRandy Dunlapif NETDEVICES 27cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap 2888491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NET_CORE 2988491d81SJeff Kirsher default y 3088491d81SJeff Kirsher bool "Network core driver support" 31253af423SJamal Hadi Salim ---help--- 3288491d81SJeff Kirsher You can say N here if you do not intend to use any of the 3388491d81SJeff Kirsher networking core drivers (i.e. VLAN, bridging, bonding, etc.) 3488491d81SJeff Kirsher 3588491d81SJeff Kirsherif NET_CORE 3688491d81SJeff Kirsher 3788491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig BONDING 3888491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate "Bonding driver support" 3988491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on INET 4088491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n 4188491d81SJeff Kirsher ---help--- 4288491d81SJeff Kirsher Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet 4388491d81SJeff Kirsher Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco, 4488491d81SJeff Kirsher 'Trunking' by Sun, 802.3ad by the IEEE, and 'Bonding' in Linux. 4588491d81SJeff Kirsher 4688491d81SJeff Kirsher The driver supports multiple bonding modes to allow for both high 4788491d81SJeff Kirsher performance and high availability operation. 4888491d81SJeff Kirsher 4988491d81SJeff Kirsher Refer to <file:Documentation/networking/bonding.txt> for more 5088491d81SJeff Kirsher information. 5188491d81SJeff Kirsher 52253af423SJamal Hadi Salim To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 5388491d81SJeff Kirsher will be called bonding. 54253af423SJamal Hadi Salim 551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DUMMY 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Dummy net driver support" 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is essentially a bit-bucket device (i.e. traffic you send to 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds this device is consigned into oblivion) with a configurable IP 601da177e4SLinus Torvalds address. It is most commonly used in order to make your currently 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds inactive SLIP address seem like a real address for local programs. 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you use SLIP or PPP, you might want to say Y here. Since this 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds thing often comes in handy, the default is Y. It won't enlarge your 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel either. What a deal. Read about it in the Network 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds Administrator's Guide, available from 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>. 671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 699f486619SAlan Cox will be called dummy. 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7188491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig EQUALIZER 7288491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate "EQL (serial line load balancing) support" 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 7488491d81SJeff Kirsher If you have two serial connections to some other computer (this 7588491d81SJeff Kirsher usually requires two modems and two telephone lines) and you use 7688491d81SJeff Kirsher SLIP (the protocol for sending Internet traffic over telephone 7788491d81SJeff Kirsher lines) or PPP (a better SLIP) on them, you can make them behave like 7888491d81SJeff Kirsher one double speed connection using this driver. Naturally, this has 7988491d81SJeff Kirsher to be supported at the other end as well, either with a similar EQL 8088491d81SJeff Kirsher Linux driver or with a Livingston Portmaster 2e. 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8288491d81SJeff Kirsher Say Y if you want this and read 8388491d81SJeff Kirsher <file:Documentation/networking/eql.txt>. You may also want to read 8488491d81SJeff Kirsher section 6.2 of the NET-3-HOWTO, available from 8588491d81SJeff Kirsher <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 871da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 8888491d81SJeff Kirsher will be called eql. If unsure, say N. 8988491d81SJeff Kirsher 9088491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NET_FC 9188491d81SJeff Kirsher bool "Fibre Channel driver support" 9288491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on SCSI && PCI 9388491d81SJeff Kirsher help 9488491d81SJeff Kirsher Fibre Channel is a high speed serial protocol mainly used to connect 9588491d81SJeff Kirsher large storage devices to the computer; it is compatible with and 9688491d81SJeff Kirsher intended to replace SCSI. 9788491d81SJeff Kirsher 9888491d81SJeff Kirsher If you intend to use Fibre Channel, you need to have a Fibre channel 9988491d81SJeff Kirsher adaptor card in your computer; say Y here and to the driver for your 10088491d81SJeff Kirsher adaptor below. You also should have said Y to "SCSI support" and 10188491d81SJeff Kirsher "SCSI generic support". 10288491d81SJeff Kirsher 10388491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig MII 10488491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate "Generic Media Independent Interface device support" 10588491d81SJeff Kirsher help 10688491d81SJeff Kirsher Most ethernet controllers have MII transceiver either as an external 10788491d81SJeff Kirsher or internal device. It is safe to say Y or M here even if your 10888491d81SJeff Kirsher ethernet card lacks MII. 10988491d81SJeff Kirsher 11088491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig IFB 11188491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate "Intermediate Functional Block support" 11288491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on NET_CLS_ACT 11388491d81SJeff Kirsher ---help--- 11488491d81SJeff Kirsher This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of 11588491d81SJeff Kirsher resources. 11688491d81SJeff Kirsher To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 11788491d81SJeff Kirsher will be called ifb. If you want to use more than one ifb 11888491d81SJeff Kirsher device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module. 11988491d81SJeff Kirsher Instead of 'ifb', the devices will then be called 'ifb0', 12088491d81SJeff Kirsher 'ifb1' etc. 12188491d81SJeff Kirsher Look at the iproute2 documentation directory for usage etc 1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1233d249d4cSJiri Pirkosource "drivers/net/team/Kconfig" 1243d249d4cSJiri Pirko 125b863ceb7SPatrick McHardyconfig MACVLAN 126b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy tristate "MAC-VLAN support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 127b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy depends on EXPERIMENTAL 128b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy ---help--- 129b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to 130b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface. 131b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy 1323dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy Macvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the 1333dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-2.6.23 release: 1343dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy 1353dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy "ip link add link <real dev> [ address MAC ] [ NAME ] type macvlan" 1363dbf8d56SPatrick McHardy 137b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 138b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy will be called macvlan. 139b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy 14020d29d7aSArnd Bergmannconfig MACVTAP 14120d29d7aSArnd Bergmann tristate "MAC-VLAN based tap driver (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14220d29d7aSArnd Bergmann depends on MACVLAN 14320d29d7aSArnd Bergmann help 14420d29d7aSArnd Bergmann This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based 14520d29d7aSArnd Bergmann on the MAC-VLAN network interface, called macvtap. A macvtap device 14620d29d7aSArnd Bergmann can be added in the same way as a macvlan device, using 'type 14720d29d7aSArnd Bergmann macvlan', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface. 14820d29d7aSArnd Bergmann 14920d29d7aSArnd Bergmann To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 15020d29d7aSArnd Bergmann will be called macvtap. 15120d29d7aSArnd Bergmann 152d342894cSstephen hemmingerconfig VXLAN 153d342894cSstephen hemminger tristate "Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN)" 154c9b20a5eSKees Cook depends on INET 155d342894cSstephen hemminger ---help--- 156d342894cSstephen hemminger This allows one to create vxlan virtual interfaces that provide 157d342894cSstephen hemminger Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. VXLAN is often used 158d342894cSstephen hemminger to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments. 159d342894cSstephen hemminger For more information see: 160d342894cSstephen hemminger http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-02 161d342894cSstephen hemminger 162d342894cSstephen hemminger To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 163d342894cSstephen hemminger will be called vxlan. 164d342894cSstephen hemminger 16588491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NETCONSOLE 16688491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate "Network console logging support" 1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 16888491d81SJeff Kirsher If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this. 16988491d81SJeff Kirsher See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. 1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17188491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC 17288491d81SJeff Kirsher bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets" 17388491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && CONFIGFS_FS && \ 17488491d81SJeff Kirsher !(NETCONSOLE=y && CONFIGFS_FS=m) 17588491d81SJeff Kirsher help 17688491d81SJeff Kirsher This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target 17788491d81SJeff Kirsher parameters (interface, IP addresses, port numbers, MAC addresses) 17888491d81SJeff Kirsher at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs. 17988491d81SJeff Kirsher See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. 1801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18188491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NETPOLL 18288491d81SJeff Kirsher def_bool NETCONSOLE 18388491d81SJeff Kirsher 18488491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NETPOLL_TRAP 18588491d81SJeff Kirsher bool "Netpoll traffic trapping" 18688491d81SJeff Kirsher default n 18788491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on NETPOLL 18888491d81SJeff Kirsher 18988491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig NET_POLL_CONTROLLER 19088491d81SJeff Kirsher def_bool NETPOLL 19188491d81SJeff Kirsher 19288491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig RIONET 19388491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support" 19488491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on RAPIDIO 19588491d81SJeff Kirsher 19688491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig RIONET_TX_SIZE 19788491d81SJeff Kirsher int "Number of outbound queue entries" 19888491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on RIONET 19988491d81SJeff Kirsher default "128" 20088491d81SJeff Kirsher 20188491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig RIONET_RX_SIZE 20288491d81SJeff Kirsher int "Number of inbound queue entries" 20388491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on RIONET 20488491d81SJeff Kirsher default "128" 2051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TUN 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support" 2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space 2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media, 2131da177e4SLinus Torvalds receives them from user space program and instead of sending packets 2141da177e4SLinus Torvalds via physical media writes them to the user space program. 2151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2161da177e4SLinus Torvalds When a program opens /dev/net/tun, driver creates and registers 2171da177e4SLinus Torvalds corresponding net device tunX or tapX. After a program closed above 2181da177e4SLinus Torvalds devices, driver will automatically delete tunXX or tapXX device and 2191da177e4SLinus Torvalds all routes corresponding to it. 2201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please read <file:Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt> for more 2221da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. 2231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called tun. 2261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2271da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what to use this for, you don't need it. 2281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 229e314dbdcSPavel Emelyanovconfig VETH 2306a9a0250SRusty Russell tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device" 231e314dbdcSPavel Emelyanov ---help--- 2326a9a0250SRusty Russell This device is a local ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs. 2336a9a0250SRusty Russell When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice 2346a9a0250SRusty Russell versa. 235e314dbdcSPavel Emelyanov 23688491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig VIRTIO_NET 23788491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate "Virtio network driver (EXPERIMENTAL)" 23888491d81SJeff Kirsher depends on EXPERIMENTAL && VIRTIO 23988491d81SJeff Kirsher ---help--- 24088491d81SJeff Kirsher This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with 24188491d81SJeff Kirsher lguest or QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M. 24288491d81SJeff Kirsher 24388491d81SJeff Kirsherendif # NET_CORE 24488491d81SJeff Kirsher 24588491d81SJeff Kirsherconfig SUNGEM_PHY 24688491d81SJeff Kirsher tristate 24788491d81SJeff Kirsher 24888491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig" 24988491d81SJeff Kirsher 25088491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/atm/Kconfig" 25188491d81SJeff Kirsher 25288491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/caif/Kconfig" 25388491d81SJeff Kirsher 2543b158859SBen Hutchingssource "drivers/net/dsa/Kconfig" 2553b158859SBen Hutchings 25688491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig" 25788491d81SJeff Kirsher 25888491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig" 25988491d81SJeff Kirsher 260fecc7351SPaul Bollesource "drivers/net/hippi/Kconfig" 261fecc7351SPaul Bolle 2621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_SB1000 2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000" 264cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap depends on PNP 2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as 2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal 2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable 2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds TV companies to provide cable modem access. It's a one-way 2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds downstream-only cable modem, meaning that your upstream net link is 2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds provided by your regular phone modem. 2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds At present this driver only compiles as a module, so say M here if 2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds you have this card. The module will be called sb1000. Then read 2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/README.sb1000> for information on how 2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds to use this module, as it needs special ppp scripts for establishing 2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds a connection. Further documentation and the necessary scripts can be 2781da177e4SLinus Torvalds found at: 2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.jacksonville.net/~fventuri/> 2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/sb1000.html> 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://linuxpower.cx/~cable/> 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't have this card, of course say N. 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28600db8189SAndy Flemingsource "drivers/net/phy/Kconfig" 28700db8189SAndy Fleming 28818e635f4SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/plip/Kconfig" 28918e635f4SJeff Kirsher 29088491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/ppp/Kconfig" 29188491d81SJeff Kirsher 292b5451d78SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/slip/Kconfig" 293b5451d78SJeff Kirsher 29488491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig" 29588491d81SJeff Kirsher 29688491d81SJeff Kirshersource "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig" 29788491d81SJeff Kirsher 2981da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig" 2991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 300143ee2d5SInaky Perez-Gonzalezsource "drivers/net/wimax/Kconfig" 301143ee2d5SInaky Perez-Gonzalez 3021da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig" 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3040739d643Salex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.comsource "drivers/net/ieee802154/Kconfig" 3050739d643Salex.bluesman.smirnov@gmail.com 3060d160211SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND 3070d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge tristate "Xen network device frontend driver" 3080d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on XEN 3097003087cSJeremy Fitzhardinge select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND 3100d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 3110d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge help 312f942dc25SIan Campbell This driver provides support for Xen paravirtual network 313f942dc25SIan Campbell devices exported by a Xen network driver domain (often 314f942dc25SIan Campbell domain 0). 315f942dc25SIan Campbell 316f942dc25SIan Campbell The corresponding Linux backend driver is enabled by the 317f942dc25SIan Campbell CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND option. 318f942dc25SIan Campbell 319f942dc25SIan Campbell If you are compiling a kernel for use as Xen guest, you 320f942dc25SIan Campbell should say Y here. To compile this driver as a module, chose 321f942dc25SIan Campbell M here: the module will be called xen-netfront. 322f942dc25SIan Campbell 323f942dc25SIan Campbellconfig XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND 324f942dc25SIan Campbell tristate "Xen backend network device" 325f942dc25SIan Campbell depends on XEN_BACKEND 326f942dc25SIan Campbell help 327f942dc25SIan Campbell This driver allows the kernel to act as a Xen network driver 328f942dc25SIan Campbell domain which exports paravirtual network devices to other 329f942dc25SIan Campbell Xen domains. These devices can be accessed by any operating 330f942dc25SIan Campbell system that implements a compatible front end. 331f942dc25SIan Campbell 332f942dc25SIan Campbell The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the 333f942dc25SIan Campbell CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND configuration option. 334f942dc25SIan Campbell 335f942dc25SIan Campbell The backend driver presents a standard network device 336f942dc25SIan Campbell endpoint for each paravirtual network device to the driver 337f942dc25SIan Campbell domain network stack. These can then be bridged or routed 338f942dc25SIan Campbell etc in order to provide full network connectivity. 339f942dc25SIan Campbell 340f942dc25SIan Campbell If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen network driver 341f942dc25SIan Campbell domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To 342f942dc25SIan Campbell compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module 343f942dc25SIan Campbell will be called xen-netback. 3440d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge 345d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewaraconfig VMXNET3 346d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara tristate "VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver" 347115924b6SShreyas Bhatewara depends on PCI && INET 348d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara help 349d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara This driver supports VMware's vmxnet3 virtual ethernet NIC. 350d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 351d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara module will be called vmxnet3. 352d1a890faSShreyas Bhatewara 35395fa0405SHaiyang Zhangsource "drivers/net/hyperv/Kconfig" 35495fa0405SHaiyang Zhang 355d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardtendif # NETDEVICES 356