1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2# 3# Network device configuration 4# 5 6menuconfig NETDEVICES 7 default y if UML 8 depends on NET 9 bool "Network device support" 10 ---help--- 11 You can say N here if you don't intend to connect your Linux box to 12 any other computer at all. 13 14 You'll have to say Y if your computer contains a network card that 15 you want to use under Linux. If you are going to run SLIP or PPP over 16 telephone line or null modem cable you need say Y here. Connecting 17 two machines with parallel ports using PLIP needs this, as well as 18 AX.25/KISS for sending Internet traffic over amateur radio links. 19 20 See also "The Linux Network Administrator's Guide" by Olaf Kirch and 21 Terry Dawson. Available at <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 22 23 If unsure, say Y. 24 25# All the following symbols are dependent on NETDEVICES - do not repeat 26# that for each of the symbols. 27if NETDEVICES 28 29config MII 30 tristate 31 32config NET_CORE 33 default y 34 bool "Network core driver support" 35 ---help--- 36 You can say N here if you do not intend to use any of the 37 networking core drivers (i.e. VLAN, bridging, bonding, etc.) 38 39if NET_CORE 40 41config BONDING 42 tristate "Bonding driver support" 43 depends on INET 44 depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n 45 ---help--- 46 Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet 47 Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco, 48 'Trunking' by Sun, 802.3ad by the IEEE, and 'Bonding' in Linux. 49 50 The driver supports multiple bonding modes to allow for both high 51 performance and high availability operation. 52 53 Refer to <file:Documentation/networking/bonding.txt> for more 54 information. 55 56 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 57 will be called bonding. 58 59config DUMMY 60 tristate "Dummy net driver support" 61 ---help--- 62 This is essentially a bit-bucket device (i.e. traffic you send to 63 this device is consigned into oblivion) with a configurable IP 64 address. It is most commonly used in order to make your currently 65 inactive SLIP address seem like a real address for local programs. 66 If you use SLIP or PPP, you might want to say Y here. It won't 67 enlarge your kernel. 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 WIREGUARD 75 tristate "WireGuard secure network tunnel" 76 depends on NET && INET 77 depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 78 select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 79 select DST_CACHE 80 select CRYPTO 81 select CRYPTO_LIB_CURVE25519 82 select CRYPTO_LIB_CHACHA20POLY1305 83 select CRYPTO_LIB_BLAKE2S 84 select CRYPTO_CHACHA20_X86_64 if X86 && 64BIT 85 select CRYPTO_POLY1305_X86_64 if X86 && 64BIT 86 select CRYPTO_BLAKE2S_X86 if X86 && 64BIT 87 select CRYPTO_CURVE25519_X86 if X86 && 64BIT 88 select ARM_CRYPTO if ARM 89 select ARM64_CRYPTO if ARM64 90 select CRYPTO_CHACHA20_NEON if (ARM || ARM64) && KERNEL_MODE_NEON 91 select CRYPTO_POLY1305_NEON if ARM64 && KERNEL_MODE_NEON 92 select CRYPTO_POLY1305_ARM if ARM 93 select CRYPTO_CURVE25519_NEON if ARM && KERNEL_MODE_NEON 94 select CRYPTO_CHACHA_MIPS if CPU_MIPS32_R2 95 select CRYPTO_POLY1305_MIPS if CPU_MIPS32 || (CPU_MIPS64 && 64BIT) 96 help 97 WireGuard is a secure, fast, and easy to use replacement for IPSec 98 that uses modern cryptography and clever networking tricks. It's 99 designed to be fairly general purpose and abstract enough to fit most 100 use cases, while at the same time remaining extremely simple to 101 configure. See www.wireguard.com for more info. 102 103 It's safe to say Y or M here, as the driver is very lightweight and 104 is only in use when an administrator chooses to add an interface. 105 106config WIREGUARD_DEBUG 107 bool "Debugging checks and verbose messages" 108 depends on WIREGUARD 109 help 110 This will write log messages for handshake and other events 111 that occur for a WireGuard interface. It will also perform some 112 extra validation checks and unit tests at various points. This is 113 only useful for debugging. 114 115 Say N here unless you know what you're doing. 116 117config EQUALIZER 118 tristate "EQL (serial line load balancing) support" 119 ---help--- 120 If you have two serial connections to some other computer (this 121 usually requires two modems and two telephone lines) and you use 122 SLIP (the protocol for sending Internet traffic over telephone 123 lines) or PPP (a better SLIP) on them, you can make them behave like 124 one double speed connection using this driver. Naturally, this has 125 to be supported at the other end as well, either with a similar EQL 126 Linux driver or with a Livingston Portmaster 2e. 127 128 Say Y if you want this and read 129 <file:Documentation/networking/eql.txt>. You may also want to read 130 section 6.2 of the NET-3-HOWTO, available from 131 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 132 133 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 134 will be called eql. If unsure, say N. 135 136config NET_FC 137 bool "Fibre Channel driver support" 138 depends on SCSI && PCI 139 help 140 Fibre Channel is a high speed serial protocol mainly used to connect 141 large storage devices to the computer; it is compatible with and 142 intended to replace SCSI. 143 144 If you intend to use Fibre Channel, you need to have a Fibre channel 145 adaptor card in your computer; say Y here and to the driver for your 146 adaptor below. You also should have said Y to "SCSI support" and 147 "SCSI generic support". 148 149config IFB 150 tristate "Intermediate Functional Block support" 151 depends on NET_CLS_ACT 152 select NET_REDIRECT 153 ---help--- 154 This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of 155 resources. 156 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 157 will be called ifb. If you want to use more than one ifb 158 device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module. 159 Instead of 'ifb', the devices will then be called 'ifb0', 160 'ifb1' etc. 161 Look at the iproute2 documentation directory for usage etc 162 163source "drivers/net/team/Kconfig" 164 165config MACVLAN 166 tristate "MAC-VLAN support" 167 ---help--- 168 This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to 169 or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface. 170 171 Macvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the 172 iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-2.6.23 release: 173 174 "ip link add link <real dev> [ address MAC ] [ NAME ] type macvlan" 175 176 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 177 will be called macvlan. 178 179config MACVTAP 180 tristate "MAC-VLAN based tap driver" 181 depends on MACVLAN 182 depends on INET 183 select TAP 184 help 185 This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based 186 on the MAC-VLAN network interface, called macvtap. A macvtap device 187 can be added in the same way as a macvlan device, using 'type 188 macvtap', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface. 189 190 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 191 will be called macvtap. 192 193config IPVLAN_L3S 194 depends on NETFILTER 195 depends on IPVLAN 196 def_bool y 197 select NET_L3_MASTER_DEV 198 199config IPVLAN 200 tristate "IP-VLAN support" 201 depends on INET 202 depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 203 ---help--- 204 This allows one to create virtual devices off of a main interface 205 and packets will be delivered based on the dest L3 (IPv6/IPv4 addr) 206 on packets. All interfaces (including the main interface) share L2 207 making it transparent to the connected L2 switch. 208 209 Ipvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the 210 iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-3.19 release: 211 212 "ip link add link <main-dev> [ NAME ] type ipvlan" 213 214 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 215 will be called ipvlan. 216 217config IPVTAP 218 tristate "IP-VLAN based tap driver" 219 depends on IPVLAN 220 depends on INET 221 select TAP 222 ---help--- 223 This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based 224 on the IP-VLAN network interface, called ipvtap. An ipvtap device 225 can be added in the same way as a ipvlan device, using 'type 226 ipvtap', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface. 227 228 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 229 will be called ipvtap. 230 231config VXLAN 232 tristate "Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN)" 233 depends on INET 234 select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 235 select GRO_CELLS 236 ---help--- 237 This allows one to create vxlan virtual interfaces that provide 238 Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. VXLAN is often used 239 to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments. 240 For more information see: 241 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-02 242 243 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 244 will be called vxlan. 245 246config GENEVE 247 tristate "Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation" 248 depends on INET 249 depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 250 select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 251 select GRO_CELLS 252 ---help--- 253 This allows one to create geneve virtual interfaces that provide 254 Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. GENEVE is often used 255 to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments. 256 For more information see: 257 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gross-geneve-02 258 259 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 260 will be called geneve. 261 262config GTP 263 tristate "GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U)" 264 depends on INET 265 select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 266 ---help--- 267 This allows one to create gtp virtual interfaces that provide 268 the GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U). This tunneling protocol 269 is used to prevent subscribers from accessing mobile carrier core 270 network infrastructure. This driver requires a userspace software that 271 implements the signaling protocol (GTP-C) to update its PDP context 272 base, such as OpenGGSN <http://git.osmocom.org/openggsn/). This 273 tunneling protocol is implemented according to the GSM TS 09.60 and 274 3GPP TS 29.060 standards. 275 276 To compile this drivers as a module, choose M here: the module 277 wil be called gtp. 278 279config MACSEC 280 tristate "IEEE 802.1AE MAC-level encryption (MACsec)" 281 select CRYPTO 282 select CRYPTO_AES 283 select CRYPTO_GCM 284 select GRO_CELLS 285 ---help--- 286 MACsec is an encryption standard for Ethernet. 287 288config NETCONSOLE 289 tristate "Network console logging support" 290 ---help--- 291 If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this. 292 See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. 293 294config NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC 295 bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets" 296 depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && CONFIGFS_FS && \ 297 !(NETCONSOLE=y && CONFIGFS_FS=m) 298 help 299 This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target 300 parameters (interface, IP addresses, port numbers, MAC addresses) 301 at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs. 302 See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. 303 304config NETPOLL 305 def_bool NETCONSOLE 306 select SRCU 307 308config NET_POLL_CONTROLLER 309 def_bool NETPOLL 310 311config NTB_NETDEV 312 tristate "Virtual Ethernet over NTB Transport" 313 depends on NTB_TRANSPORT 314 315config RIONET 316 tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support" 317 depends on RAPIDIO 318 319config RIONET_TX_SIZE 320 int "Number of outbound queue entries" 321 depends on RIONET 322 default "128" 323 324config RIONET_RX_SIZE 325 int "Number of inbound queue entries" 326 depends on RIONET 327 default "128" 328 329config TUN 330 tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support" 331 depends on INET 332 select CRC32 333 ---help--- 334 TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space 335 programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet 336 device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media, 337 receives them from user space program and instead of sending packets 338 via physical media writes them to the user space program. 339 340 When a program opens /dev/net/tun, driver creates and registers 341 corresponding net device tunX or tapX. After a program closed above 342 devices, driver will automatically delete tunXX or tapXX device and 343 all routes corresponding to it. 344 345 Please read <file:Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt> for more 346 information. 347 348 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 349 will be called tun. 350 351 If you don't know what to use this for, you don't need it. 352 353config TAP 354 tristate 355 ---help--- 356 This option is selected by any driver implementing tap user space 357 interface for a virtual interface to re-use core tap functionality. 358 359config TUN_VNET_CROSS_LE 360 bool "Support for cross-endian vnet headers on little-endian kernels" 361 default n 362 ---help--- 363 This option allows TUN/TAP and MACVTAP device drivers in a 364 little-endian kernel to parse vnet headers that come from a 365 big-endian legacy virtio device. 366 367 Userspace programs can control the feature using the TUNSETVNETBE 368 and TUNGETVNETBE ioctls. 369 370 Unless you have a little-endian system hosting a big-endian virtual 371 machine with a legacy virtio NIC, you should say N. 372 373config VETH 374 tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device" 375 ---help--- 376 This device is a local ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs. 377 When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice 378 versa. 379 380config VIRTIO_NET 381 tristate "Virtio network driver" 382 depends on VIRTIO 383 select NET_FAILOVER 384 ---help--- 385 This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with 386 QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M. 387 388config NLMON 389 tristate "Virtual netlink monitoring device" 390 ---help--- 391 This option enables a monitoring net device for netlink skbs. The 392 purpose of this is to analyze netlink messages with packet sockets. 393 Thus applications like tcpdump will be able to see local netlink 394 messages if they tap into the netlink device, record pcaps for further 395 diagnostics, etc. This is mostly intended for developers or support 396 to debug netlink issues. If unsure, say N. 397 398config NET_VRF 399 tristate "Virtual Routing and Forwarding (Lite)" 400 depends on IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES 401 depends on NET_L3_MASTER_DEV 402 depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n 403 depends on IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES || IPV6=n 404 ---help--- 405 This option enables the support for mapping interfaces into VRF's. The 406 support enables VRF devices. 407 408config VSOCKMON 409 tristate "Virtual vsock monitoring device" 410 depends on VHOST_VSOCK 411 ---help--- 412 This option enables a monitoring net device for vsock sockets. It is 413 mostly intended for developers or support to debug vsock issues. If 414 unsure, say N. 415 416endif # NET_CORE 417 418config SUNGEM_PHY 419 tristate 420 421source "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig" 422 423source "drivers/atm/Kconfig" 424 425source "drivers/net/caif/Kconfig" 426 427source "drivers/net/dsa/Kconfig" 428 429source "drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig" 430 431source "drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig" 432 433source "drivers/net/hippi/Kconfig" 434 435config NET_SB1000 436 tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000" 437 depends on PNP 438 ---help--- 439 This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as 440 NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal 441 cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable 442 TV companies to provide cable modem access. It's a one-way 443 downstream-only cable modem, meaning that your upstream net link is 444 provided by your regular phone modem. 445 446 At present this driver only compiles as a module, so say M here if 447 you have this card. The module will be called sb1000. Then read 448 <file:Documentation/networking/device_drivers/sb1000.txt> for 449 information on how to use this module, as it needs special ppp 450 scripts for establishing a connection. Further documentation 451 and the necessary scripts can be found at: 452 453 <http://www.jacksonville.net/~fventuri/> 454 <http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/sb1000.html> 455 <http://linuxpower.cx/~cable/> 456 457 If you don't have this card, of course say N. 458 459source "drivers/net/phy/Kconfig" 460 461source "drivers/net/plip/Kconfig" 462 463source "drivers/net/ppp/Kconfig" 464 465source "drivers/net/slip/Kconfig" 466 467source "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig" 468 469source "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig" 470 471source "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig" 472 473source "drivers/net/wimax/Kconfig" 474 475source "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig" 476 477source "drivers/net/ieee802154/Kconfig" 478 479config XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND 480 tristate "Xen network device frontend driver" 481 depends on XEN 482 select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND 483 default y 484 help 485 This driver provides support for Xen paravirtual network 486 devices exported by a Xen network driver domain (often 487 domain 0). 488 489 The corresponding Linux backend driver is enabled by the 490 CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND option. 491 492 If you are compiling a kernel for use as Xen guest, you 493 should say Y here. To compile this driver as a module, chose 494 M here: the module will be called xen-netfront. 495 496config XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND 497 tristate "Xen backend network device" 498 depends on XEN_BACKEND 499 help 500 This driver allows the kernel to act as a Xen network driver 501 domain which exports paravirtual network devices to other 502 Xen domains. These devices can be accessed by any operating 503 system that implements a compatible front end. 504 505 The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the 506 CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND configuration option. 507 508 The backend driver presents a standard network device 509 endpoint for each paravirtual network device to the driver 510 domain network stack. These can then be bridged or routed 511 etc in order to provide full network connectivity. 512 513 If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen network driver 514 domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To 515 compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module 516 will be called xen-netback. 517 518config VMXNET3 519 tristate "VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver" 520 depends on PCI && INET 521 depends on !(PAGE_SIZE_64KB || ARM64_64K_PAGES || \ 522 IA64_PAGE_SIZE_64KB || MICROBLAZE_64K_PAGES || \ 523 PARISC_PAGE_SIZE_64KB || PPC_64K_PAGES) 524 help 525 This driver supports VMware's vmxnet3 virtual ethernet NIC. 526 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 527 module will be called vmxnet3. 528 529config FUJITSU_ES 530 tristate "FUJITSU Extended Socket Network Device driver" 531 depends on ACPI 532 help 533 This driver provides support for Extended Socket network device 534 on Extended Partitioning of FUJITSU PRIMEQUEST 2000 E2 series. 535 536config USB4_NET 537 tristate "Networking over USB4 and Thunderbolt cables" 538 depends on USB4 && INET 539 help 540 Select this if you want to create network between two computers 541 over a USB4 and Thunderbolt cables. The driver supports Apple 542 ThunderboltIP protocol and allows communication with any host 543 supporting the same protocol including Windows and macOS. 544 545 To compile this driver a module, choose M here. The module will be 546 called thunderbolt-net. 547 548source "drivers/net/hyperv/Kconfig" 549 550config NETDEVSIM 551 tristate "Simulated networking device" 552 depends on DEBUG_FS 553 depends on INET 554 depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n 555 select NET_DEVLINK 556 help 557 This driver is a developer testing tool and software model that can 558 be used to test various control path networking APIs, especially 559 HW-offload related. 560 561 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 562 will be called netdevsim. 563 564config NET_FAILOVER 565 tristate "Failover driver" 566 select FAILOVER 567 help 568 This provides an automated failover mechanism via APIs to create 569 and destroy a failover master netdev and manages a primary and 570 standby slave netdevs that get registered via the generic failover 571 infrastructure. This can be used by paravirtual drivers to enable 572 an alternate low latency datapath. It also enables live migration of 573 a VM with direct attached VF by failing over to the paravirtual 574 datapath when the VF is unplugged. 575 576endif # NETDEVICES 577