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 depends on TLS || TLS_DEVICE=n 46 help 47 Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet 48 Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco, 49 'Trunking' by Sun, 802.3ad by the IEEE, and 'Bonding' in Linux. 50 51 The driver supports multiple bonding modes to allow for both high 52 performance and high availability operation. 53 54 Refer to <file:Documentation/networking/bonding.rst> for more 55 information. 56 57 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 58 will be called bonding. 59 60config DUMMY 61 tristate "Dummy net driver support" 62 help 63 This is essentially a bit-bucket device (i.e. traffic you send to 64 this device is consigned into oblivion) with a configurable IP 65 address. It is most commonly used in order to make your currently 66 inactive SLIP address seem like a real address for local programs. 67 If you use SLIP or PPP, you might want to say Y here. It won't 68 enlarge your kernel. What a deal. Read about it in the Network 69 Administrator's Guide, available from 70 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>. 71 72 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 73 will be called dummy. 74 75config WIREGUARD 76 tristate "WireGuard secure network tunnel" 77 depends on NET && INET 78 depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 79 select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 80 select DST_CACHE 81 select CRYPTO 82 select CRYPTO_LIB_CURVE25519 83 select CRYPTO_LIB_CHACHA20POLY1305 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 CRYPTO_CHACHA20_NEON if ARM || (ARM64 && KERNEL_MODE_NEON) 89 select CRYPTO_POLY1305_NEON if ARM64 && KERNEL_MODE_NEON 90 select CRYPTO_POLY1305_ARM if ARM 91 select CRYPTO_BLAKE2S_ARM if ARM 92 select CRYPTO_CURVE25519_NEON if ARM && KERNEL_MODE_NEON 93 select CRYPTO_CHACHA_MIPS if CPU_MIPS32_R2 94 select CRYPTO_POLY1305_MIPS if MIPS 95 select CRYPTO_CHACHA_S390 if S390 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.rst>. 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_ACT_MIRRED || NFT_FWD_NETDEV 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 BAREUDP 263 tristate "Bare UDP Encapsulation" 264 depends on INET 265 depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 266 select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 267 select GRO_CELLS 268 help 269 This adds a bare UDP tunnel module for tunnelling different 270 kinds of traffic like MPLS, IP, etc. inside a UDP tunnel. 271 272 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 273 will be called bareudp. 274 275config GTP 276 tristate "GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U)" 277 depends on INET 278 select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 279 help 280 This allows one to create gtp virtual interfaces that provide 281 the GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U). This tunneling protocol 282 is used to prevent subscribers from accessing mobile carrier core 283 network infrastructure. This driver requires a userspace software that 284 implements the signaling protocol (GTP-C) to update its PDP context 285 base, such as OpenGGSN <http://git.osmocom.org/openggsn/). This 286 tunneling protocol is implemented according to the GSM TS 09.60 and 287 3GPP TS 29.060 standards. 288 289 To compile this drivers as a module, choose M here: the module 290 will be called gtp. 291 292config AMT 293 tristate "Automatic Multicast Tunneling (AMT)" 294 depends on INET && IP_MULTICAST 295 depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 296 select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 297 help 298 This allows one to create AMT(Automatic Multicast Tunneling) 299 virtual interfaces that provide multicast tunneling. 300 There are two roles, Gateway, and Relay. 301 Gateway Encapsulates IGMP/MLD traffic from listeners to the Relay. 302 Gateway Decapsulates multicast traffic from the Relay to Listeners. 303 Relay Encapsulates multicast traffic from Sources to Gateway. 304 Relay Decapsulates IGMP/MLD traffic from Gateway. 305 306 To compile this drivers as a module, choose M here: the module 307 will be called amt. 308 309config MACSEC 310 tristate "IEEE 802.1AE MAC-level encryption (MACsec)" 311 select CRYPTO 312 select CRYPTO_AES 313 select CRYPTO_GCM 314 select GRO_CELLS 315 help 316 MACsec is an encryption standard for Ethernet. 317 318config NETCONSOLE 319 tristate "Network console logging support" 320 help 321 If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this. 322 See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst> for details. 323 324config NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC 325 bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets" 326 depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && CONFIGFS_FS && \ 327 !(NETCONSOLE=y && CONFIGFS_FS=m) 328 help 329 This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target 330 parameters (interface, IP addresses, port numbers, MAC addresses) 331 at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs. 332 See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst> for details. 333 334config NETPOLL 335 def_bool NETCONSOLE 336 select SRCU 337 338config NET_POLL_CONTROLLER 339 def_bool NETPOLL 340 341config NTB_NETDEV 342 tristate "Virtual Ethernet over NTB Transport" 343 depends on NTB_TRANSPORT 344 345config RIONET 346 tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support" 347 depends on RAPIDIO 348 349config RIONET_TX_SIZE 350 int "Number of outbound queue entries" 351 depends on RIONET 352 default "128" 353 354config RIONET_RX_SIZE 355 int "Number of inbound queue entries" 356 depends on RIONET 357 default "128" 358 359config TUN 360 tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support" 361 depends on INET 362 select CRC32 363 help 364 TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space 365 programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet 366 device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media, 367 receives them from user space program and instead of sending packets 368 via physical media writes them to the user space program. 369 370 When a program opens /dev/net/tun, driver creates and registers 371 corresponding net device tunX or tapX. After a program closed above 372 devices, driver will automatically delete tunXX or tapXX device and 373 all routes corresponding to it. 374 375 Please read <file:Documentation/networking/tuntap.rst> for more 376 information. 377 378 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 379 will be called tun. 380 381 If you don't know what to use this for, you don't need it. 382 383config TAP 384 tristate 385 help 386 This option is selected by any driver implementing tap user space 387 interface for a virtual interface to re-use core tap functionality. 388 389config TUN_VNET_CROSS_LE 390 bool "Support for cross-endian vnet headers on little-endian kernels" 391 default n 392 help 393 This option allows TUN/TAP and MACVTAP device drivers in a 394 little-endian kernel to parse vnet headers that come from a 395 big-endian legacy virtio device. 396 397 Userspace programs can control the feature using the TUNSETVNETBE 398 and TUNGETVNETBE ioctls. 399 400 Unless you have a little-endian system hosting a big-endian virtual 401 machine with a legacy virtio NIC, you should say N. 402 403config VETH 404 tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device" 405 help 406 This device is a local ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs. 407 When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice 408 versa. 409 410config VIRTIO_NET 411 tristate "Virtio network driver" 412 depends on VIRTIO 413 select NET_FAILOVER 414 help 415 This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with 416 QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M. 417 418config NLMON 419 tristate "Virtual netlink monitoring device" 420 help 421 This option enables a monitoring net device for netlink skbs. The 422 purpose of this is to analyze netlink messages with packet sockets. 423 Thus applications like tcpdump will be able to see local netlink 424 messages if they tap into the netlink device, record pcaps for further 425 diagnostics, etc. This is mostly intended for developers or support 426 to debug netlink issues. If unsure, say N. 427 428config NET_VRF 429 tristate "Virtual Routing and Forwarding (Lite)" 430 depends on IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES 431 depends on NET_L3_MASTER_DEV 432 depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n 433 depends on IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES || IPV6=n 434 help 435 This option enables the support for mapping interfaces into VRF's. The 436 support enables VRF devices. 437 438config VSOCKMON 439 tristate "Virtual vsock monitoring device" 440 depends on VHOST_VSOCK 441 help 442 This option enables a monitoring net device for vsock sockets. It is 443 mostly intended for developers or support to debug vsock issues. If 444 unsure, say N. 445 446config MHI_NET 447 tristate "MHI network driver" 448 depends on MHI_BUS 449 help 450 This is the network driver for MHI bus. It can be used with 451 QCOM based WWAN modems for IP or QMAP/rmnet protocol (like SDX55). 452 Say Y or M. 453 454endif # NET_CORE 455 456config SUNGEM_PHY 457 tristate 458 459source "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig" 460 461source "drivers/atm/Kconfig" 462 463source "drivers/net/caif/Kconfig" 464 465source "drivers/net/dsa/Kconfig" 466 467source "drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig" 468 469source "drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig" 470 471source "drivers/net/hippi/Kconfig" 472 473source "drivers/net/ipa/Kconfig" 474 475config NET_SB1000 476 tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000" 477 depends on PNP 478 help 479 This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as 480 NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal 481 cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable 482 TV companies to provide cable modem access. It's a one-way 483 downstream-only cable modem, meaning that your upstream net link is 484 provided by your regular phone modem. 485 486 At present this driver only compiles as a module, so say M here if 487 you have this card. The module will be called sb1000. Then read 488 <file:Documentation/networking/device_drivers/cable/sb1000.rst> for 489 information on how to use this module, as it needs special ppp 490 scripts for establishing a connection. Further documentation 491 and the necessary scripts can be found at: 492 493 <http://www.jacksonville.net/~fventuri/> 494 <http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/sb1000.html> 495 <http://linuxpower.cx/~cable/> 496 497 If you don't have this card, of course say N. 498 499source "drivers/net/phy/Kconfig" 500 501source "drivers/net/can/Kconfig" 502 503source "drivers/net/mctp/Kconfig" 504 505source "drivers/net/mdio/Kconfig" 506 507source "drivers/net/pcs/Kconfig" 508 509source "drivers/net/plip/Kconfig" 510 511source "drivers/net/ppp/Kconfig" 512 513source "drivers/net/slip/Kconfig" 514 515source "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig" 516 517source "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig" 518 519source "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig" 520 521source "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig" 522 523source "drivers/net/ieee802154/Kconfig" 524 525source "drivers/net/wwan/Kconfig" 526 527config XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND 528 tristate "Xen network device frontend driver" 529 depends on XEN 530 select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND 531 select PAGE_POOL 532 default y 533 help 534 This driver provides support for Xen paravirtual network 535 devices exported by a Xen network driver domain (often 536 domain 0). 537 538 The corresponding Linux backend driver is enabled by the 539 CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND option. 540 541 If you are compiling a kernel for use as Xen guest, you 542 should say Y here. To compile this driver as a module, chose 543 M here: the module will be called xen-netfront. 544 545config XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND 546 tristate "Xen backend network device" 547 depends on XEN_BACKEND 548 help 549 This driver allows the kernel to act as a Xen network driver 550 domain which exports paravirtual network devices to other 551 Xen domains. These devices can be accessed by any operating 552 system that implements a compatible front end. 553 554 The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the 555 CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND configuration option. 556 557 The backend driver presents a standard network device 558 endpoint for each paravirtual network device to the driver 559 domain network stack. These can then be bridged or routed 560 etc in order to provide full network connectivity. 561 562 If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen network driver 563 domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To 564 compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module 565 will be called xen-netback. 566 567config VMXNET3 568 tristate "VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver" 569 depends on PCI && INET 570 depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_64KB 571 help 572 This driver supports VMware's vmxnet3 virtual ethernet NIC. 573 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 574 module will be called vmxnet3. 575 576config FUJITSU_ES 577 tristate "FUJITSU Extended Socket Network Device driver" 578 depends on ACPI 579 help 580 This driver provides support for Extended Socket network device 581 on Extended Partitioning of FUJITSU PRIMEQUEST 2000 E2 series. 582 583config USB4_NET 584 tristate "Networking over USB4 and Thunderbolt cables" 585 depends on USB4 && INET 586 help 587 Select this if you want to create network between two computers 588 over a USB4 and Thunderbolt cables. The driver supports Apple 589 ThunderboltIP protocol and allows communication with any host 590 supporting the same protocol including Windows and macOS. 591 592 To compile this driver a module, choose M here. The module will be 593 called thunderbolt-net. 594 595source "drivers/net/hyperv/Kconfig" 596 597config NETDEVSIM 598 tristate "Simulated networking device" 599 depends on DEBUG_FS 600 depends on INET 601 depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n 602 depends on PSAMPLE || PSAMPLE=n 603 select NET_DEVLINK 604 help 605 This driver is a developer testing tool and software model that can 606 be used to test various control path networking APIs, especially 607 HW-offload related. 608 609 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 610 will be called netdevsim. 611 612config NET_FAILOVER 613 tristate "Failover driver" 614 select FAILOVER 615 help 616 This provides an automated failover mechanism via APIs to create 617 and destroy a failover master netdev and manages a primary and 618 standby slave netdevs that get registered via the generic failover 619 infrastructure. This can be used by paravirtual drivers to enable 620 an alternate low latency datapath. It also enables live migration of 621 a VM with direct attached VF by failing over to the paravirtual 622 datapath when the VF is unplugged. 623 624config NETDEV_LEGACY_INIT 625 bool 626 depends on ISA 627 help 628 Drivers that call netdev_boot_setup_check() should select this 629 symbol, everything else no longer needs it. 630 631endif # NETDEVICES 632