1# 2# Network device configuration 3# 4 5menuconfig NETDEVICES 6 default y if UML 7 depends on NET 8 bool "Network device support" 9 ---help--- 10 You can say N here if you don't intend to connect your Linux box to 11 any other computer at all. 12 13 You'll have to say Y if your computer contains a network card that 14 you want to use under Linux. If you are going to run SLIP or PPP over 15 telephone line or null modem cable you need say Y here. Connecting 16 two machines with parallel ports using PLIP needs this, as well as 17 AX.25/KISS for sending Internet traffic over amateur radio links. 18 19 See also "The Linux Network Administrator's Guide" by Olaf Kirch and 20 Terry Dawson. Available at <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 21 22 If unsure, say Y. 23 24# All the following symbols are dependent on NETDEVICES - do not repeat 25# that for each of the symbols. 26if NETDEVICES 27 28config MII 29 tristate 30 31config NET_CORE 32 default y 33 bool "Network core driver support" 34 ---help--- 35 You can say N here if you do not intend to use any of the 36 networking core drivers (i.e. VLAN, bridging, bonding, etc.) 37 38if NET_CORE 39 40config BONDING 41 tristate "Bonding driver support" 42 depends on INET 43 depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n 44 ---help--- 45 Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet 46 Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco, 47 'Trunking' by Sun, 802.3ad by the IEEE, and 'Bonding' in Linux. 48 49 The driver supports multiple bonding modes to allow for both high 50 performance and high availability operation. 51 52 Refer to <file:Documentation/networking/bonding.txt> for more 53 information. 54 55 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 56 will be called bonding. 57 58config DUMMY 59 tristate "Dummy net driver support" 60 ---help--- 61 This is essentially a bit-bucket device (i.e. traffic you send to 62 this device is consigned into oblivion) with a configurable IP 63 address. It is most commonly used in order to make your currently 64 inactive SLIP address seem like a real address for local programs. 65 If you use SLIP or PPP, you might want to say Y here. Since this 66 thing often comes in handy, the default is Y. It won't enlarge your 67 kernel either. What a deal. Read about it in the Network 68 Administrator's Guide, available from 69 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>. 70 71 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 72 will be called dummy. 73 74config EQUALIZER 75 tristate "EQL (serial line load balancing) support" 76 ---help--- 77 If you have two serial connections to some other computer (this 78 usually requires two modems and two telephone lines) and you use 79 SLIP (the protocol for sending Internet traffic over telephone 80 lines) or PPP (a better SLIP) on them, you can make them behave like 81 one double speed connection using this driver. Naturally, this has 82 to be supported at the other end as well, either with a similar EQL 83 Linux driver or with a Livingston Portmaster 2e. 84 85 Say Y if you want this and read 86 <file:Documentation/networking/eql.txt>. You may also want to read 87 section 6.2 of the NET-3-HOWTO, available from 88 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 89 90 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 91 will be called eql. If unsure, say N. 92 93config NET_FC 94 bool "Fibre Channel driver support" 95 depends on SCSI && PCI 96 help 97 Fibre Channel is a high speed serial protocol mainly used to connect 98 large storage devices to the computer; it is compatible with and 99 intended to replace SCSI. 100 101 If you intend to use Fibre Channel, you need to have a Fibre channel 102 adaptor card in your computer; say Y here and to the driver for your 103 adaptor below. You also should have said Y to "SCSI support" and 104 "SCSI generic support". 105 106config IFB 107 tristate "Intermediate Functional Block support" 108 depends on NET_CLS_ACT 109 ---help--- 110 This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of 111 resources. 112 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 113 will be called ifb. If you want to use more than one ifb 114 device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module. 115 Instead of 'ifb', the devices will then be called 'ifb0', 116 'ifb1' etc. 117 Look at the iproute2 documentation directory for usage etc 118 119source "drivers/net/team/Kconfig" 120 121config MACVLAN 122 tristate "MAC-VLAN support" 123 ---help--- 124 This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to 125 or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface. 126 127 Macvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the 128 iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-2.6.23 release: 129 130 "ip link add link <real dev> [ address MAC ] [ NAME ] type macvlan" 131 132 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 133 will be called macvlan. 134 135config MACVTAP 136 tristate "MAC-VLAN based tap driver" 137 depends on MACVLAN 138 depends on INET 139 help 140 This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based 141 on the MAC-VLAN network interface, called macvtap. A macvtap device 142 can be added in the same way as a macvlan device, using 'type 143 macvtap', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface. 144 145 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 146 will be called macvtap. 147 148 149config IPVLAN 150 tristate "IP-VLAN support" 151 depends on INET 152 depends on IPV6 153 ---help--- 154 This allows one to create virtual devices off of a main interface 155 and packets will be delivered based on the dest L3 (IPv6/IPv4 addr) 156 on packets. All interfaces (including the main interface) share L2 157 making it transparent to the connected L2 switch. 158 159 Ipvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the 160 iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-X.Y.ZZ release: 161 162 "ip link add link <main-dev> [ NAME ] type ipvlan" 163 164 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 165 will be called ipvlan. 166 167 168config VXLAN 169 tristate "Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN)" 170 depends on INET 171 select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 172 ---help--- 173 This allows one to create vxlan virtual interfaces that provide 174 Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. VXLAN is often used 175 to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments. 176 For more information see: 177 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-02 178 179 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 180 will be called vxlan. 181 182config NETCONSOLE 183 tristate "Network console logging support" 184 ---help--- 185 If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this. 186 See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. 187 188config NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC 189 bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets" 190 depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && CONFIGFS_FS && \ 191 !(NETCONSOLE=y && CONFIGFS_FS=m) 192 help 193 This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target 194 parameters (interface, IP addresses, port numbers, MAC addresses) 195 at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs. 196 See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. 197 198config NETPOLL 199 def_bool NETCONSOLE 200 201config NET_POLL_CONTROLLER 202 def_bool NETPOLL 203 204config NTB_NETDEV 205 tristate "Virtual Ethernet over NTB" 206 depends on NTB 207 208config RIONET 209 tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support" 210 depends on RAPIDIO 211 212config RIONET_TX_SIZE 213 int "Number of outbound queue entries" 214 depends on RIONET 215 default "128" 216 217config RIONET_RX_SIZE 218 int "Number of inbound queue entries" 219 depends on RIONET 220 default "128" 221 222config TUN 223 tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support" 224 depends on INET 225 select CRC32 226 ---help--- 227 TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space 228 programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet 229 device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media, 230 receives them from user space program and instead of sending packets 231 via physical media writes them to the user space program. 232 233 When a program opens /dev/net/tun, driver creates and registers 234 corresponding net device tunX or tapX. After a program closed above 235 devices, driver will automatically delete tunXX or tapXX device and 236 all routes corresponding to it. 237 238 Please read <file:Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt> for more 239 information. 240 241 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 242 will be called tun. 243 244 If you don't know what to use this for, you don't need it. 245 246config VETH 247 tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device" 248 ---help--- 249 This device is a local ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs. 250 When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice 251 versa. 252 253config VIRTIO_NET 254 tristate "Virtio network driver" 255 depends on VIRTIO 256 select AVERAGE 257 ---help--- 258 This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with 259 lguest or QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M. 260 261config NLMON 262 tristate "Virtual netlink monitoring device" 263 ---help--- 264 This option enables a monitoring net device for netlink skbs. The 265 purpose of this is to analyze netlink messages with packet sockets. 266 Thus applications like tcpdump will be able to see local netlink 267 messages if they tap into the netlink device, record pcaps for further 268 diagnostics, etc. This is mostly intended for developers or support 269 to debug netlink issues. If unsure, say N. 270 271endif # NET_CORE 272 273config SUNGEM_PHY 274 tristate 275 276source "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig" 277 278source "drivers/atm/Kconfig" 279 280source "drivers/net/caif/Kconfig" 281 282source "drivers/net/dsa/Kconfig" 283 284source "drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig" 285 286source "drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig" 287 288source "drivers/net/hippi/Kconfig" 289 290config NET_SB1000 291 tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000" 292 depends on PNP 293 ---help--- 294 This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as 295 NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal 296 cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable 297 TV companies to provide cable modem access. It's a one-way 298 downstream-only cable modem, meaning that your upstream net link is 299 provided by your regular phone modem. 300 301 At present this driver only compiles as a module, so say M here if 302 you have this card. The module will be called sb1000. Then read 303 <file:Documentation/networking/README.sb1000> for information on how 304 to use this module, as it needs special ppp scripts for establishing 305 a connection. Further documentation and the necessary scripts can be 306 found at: 307 308 <http://www.jacksonville.net/~fventuri/> 309 <http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/sb1000.html> 310 <http://linuxpower.cx/~cable/> 311 312 If you don't have this card, of course say N. 313 314source "drivers/net/phy/Kconfig" 315 316source "drivers/net/plip/Kconfig" 317 318source "drivers/net/ppp/Kconfig" 319 320source "drivers/net/slip/Kconfig" 321 322source "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig" 323 324source "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig" 325 326source "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig" 327 328source "drivers/net/wimax/Kconfig" 329 330source "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig" 331 332source "drivers/net/ieee802154/Kconfig" 333 334config XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND 335 tristate "Xen network device frontend driver" 336 depends on XEN 337 select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND 338 default y 339 help 340 This driver provides support for Xen paravirtual network 341 devices exported by a Xen network driver domain (often 342 domain 0). 343 344 The corresponding Linux backend driver is enabled by the 345 CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND option. 346 347 If you are compiling a kernel for use as Xen guest, you 348 should say Y here. To compile this driver as a module, chose 349 M here: the module will be called xen-netfront. 350 351config XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND 352 tristate "Xen backend network device" 353 depends on XEN_BACKEND 354 help 355 This driver allows the kernel to act as a Xen network driver 356 domain which exports paravirtual network devices to other 357 Xen domains. These devices can be accessed by any operating 358 system that implements a compatible front end. 359 360 The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the 361 CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND configuration option. 362 363 The backend driver presents a standard network device 364 endpoint for each paravirtual network device to the driver 365 domain network stack. These can then be bridged or routed 366 etc in order to provide full network connectivity. 367 368 If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen network driver 369 domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To 370 compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module 371 will be called xen-netback. 372 373config VMXNET3 374 tristate "VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver" 375 depends on PCI && INET 376 help 377 This driver supports VMware's vmxnet3 virtual ethernet NIC. 378 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 379 module will be called vmxnet3. 380 381source "drivers/net/hyperv/Kconfig" 382 383endif # NETDEVICES 384