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 ---help--- 153 This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of 154 resources. 155 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 156 will be called ifb. If you want to use more than one ifb 157 device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module. 158 Instead of 'ifb', the devices will then be called 'ifb0', 159 'ifb1' etc. 160 Look at the iproute2 documentation directory for usage etc 161 162source "drivers/net/team/Kconfig" 163 164config MACVLAN 165 tristate "MAC-VLAN support" 166 ---help--- 167 This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to 168 or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface. 169 170 Macvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the 171 iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-2.6.23 release: 172 173 "ip link add link <real dev> [ address MAC ] [ NAME ] type macvlan" 174 175 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 176 will be called macvlan. 177 178config MACVTAP 179 tristate "MAC-VLAN based tap driver" 180 depends on MACVLAN 181 depends on INET 182 select TAP 183 help 184 This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based 185 on the MAC-VLAN network interface, called macvtap. A macvtap device 186 can be added in the same way as a macvlan device, using 'type 187 macvtap', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface. 188 189 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 190 will be called macvtap. 191 192config IPVLAN_L3S 193 depends on NETFILTER 194 depends on IPVLAN 195 def_bool y 196 select NET_L3_MASTER_DEV 197 198config IPVLAN 199 tristate "IP-VLAN support" 200 depends on INET 201 depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 202 ---help--- 203 This allows one to create virtual devices off of a main interface 204 and packets will be delivered based on the dest L3 (IPv6/IPv4 addr) 205 on packets. All interfaces (including the main interface) share L2 206 making it transparent to the connected L2 switch. 207 208 Ipvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the 209 iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-3.19 release: 210 211 "ip link add link <main-dev> [ NAME ] type ipvlan" 212 213 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 214 will be called ipvlan. 215 216config IPVTAP 217 tristate "IP-VLAN based tap driver" 218 depends on IPVLAN 219 depends on INET 220 select TAP 221 ---help--- 222 This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based 223 on the IP-VLAN network interface, called ipvtap. An ipvtap device 224 can be added in the same way as a ipvlan device, using 'type 225 ipvtap', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface. 226 227 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 228 will be called ipvtap. 229 230config VXLAN 231 tristate "Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN)" 232 depends on INET 233 select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 234 select GRO_CELLS 235 ---help--- 236 This allows one to create vxlan virtual interfaces that provide 237 Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. VXLAN is often used 238 to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments. 239 For more information see: 240 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-02 241 242 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 243 will be called vxlan. 244 245config GENEVE 246 tristate "Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation" 247 depends on INET 248 depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 249 select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 250 select GRO_CELLS 251 ---help--- 252 This allows one to create geneve virtual interfaces that provide 253 Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. GENEVE is often used 254 to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments. 255 For more information see: 256 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gross-geneve-02 257 258 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 259 will be called geneve. 260 261config GTP 262 tristate "GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U)" 263 depends on INET 264 select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 265 ---help--- 266 This allows one to create gtp virtual interfaces that provide 267 the GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U). This tunneling protocol 268 is used to prevent subscribers from accessing mobile carrier core 269 network infrastructure. This driver requires a userspace software that 270 implements the signaling protocol (GTP-C) to update its PDP context 271 base, such as OpenGGSN <http://git.osmocom.org/openggsn/). This 272 tunneling protocol is implemented according to the GSM TS 09.60 and 273 3GPP TS 29.060 standards. 274 275 To compile this drivers as a module, choose M here: the module 276 wil be called gtp. 277 278config MACSEC 279 tristate "IEEE 802.1AE MAC-level encryption (MACsec)" 280 select CRYPTO 281 select CRYPTO_AES 282 select CRYPTO_GCM 283 select GRO_CELLS 284 ---help--- 285 MACsec is an encryption standard for Ethernet. 286 287config NETCONSOLE 288 tristate "Network console logging support" 289 ---help--- 290 If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this. 291 See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. 292 293config NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC 294 bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets" 295 depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && CONFIGFS_FS && \ 296 !(NETCONSOLE=y && CONFIGFS_FS=m) 297 help 298 This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target 299 parameters (interface, IP addresses, port numbers, MAC addresses) 300 at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs. 301 See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. 302 303config NETPOLL 304 def_bool NETCONSOLE 305 select SRCU 306 307config NET_POLL_CONTROLLER 308 def_bool NETPOLL 309 310config NTB_NETDEV 311 tristate "Virtual Ethernet over NTB Transport" 312 depends on NTB_TRANSPORT 313 314config RIONET 315 tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support" 316 depends on RAPIDIO 317 318config RIONET_TX_SIZE 319 int "Number of outbound queue entries" 320 depends on RIONET 321 default "128" 322 323config RIONET_RX_SIZE 324 int "Number of inbound queue entries" 325 depends on RIONET 326 default "128" 327 328config TUN 329 tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support" 330 depends on INET 331 select CRC32 332 ---help--- 333 TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space 334 programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet 335 device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media, 336 receives them from user space program and instead of sending packets 337 via physical media writes them to the user space program. 338 339 When a program opens /dev/net/tun, driver creates and registers 340 corresponding net device tunX or tapX. After a program closed above 341 devices, driver will automatically delete tunXX or tapXX device and 342 all routes corresponding to it. 343 344 Please read <file:Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt> for more 345 information. 346 347 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 348 will be called tun. 349 350 If you don't know what to use this for, you don't need it. 351 352config TAP 353 tristate 354 ---help--- 355 This option is selected by any driver implementing tap user space 356 interface for a virtual interface to re-use core tap functionality. 357 358config TUN_VNET_CROSS_LE 359 bool "Support for cross-endian vnet headers on little-endian kernels" 360 default n 361 ---help--- 362 This option allows TUN/TAP and MACVTAP device drivers in a 363 little-endian kernel to parse vnet headers that come from a 364 big-endian legacy virtio device. 365 366 Userspace programs can control the feature using the TUNSETVNETBE 367 and TUNGETVNETBE ioctls. 368 369 Unless you have a little-endian system hosting a big-endian virtual 370 machine with a legacy virtio NIC, you should say N. 371 372config VETH 373 tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device" 374 ---help--- 375 This device is a local ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs. 376 When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice 377 versa. 378 379config VIRTIO_NET 380 tristate "Virtio network driver" 381 depends on VIRTIO 382 select NET_FAILOVER 383 ---help--- 384 This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with 385 QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M. 386 387config NLMON 388 tristate "Virtual netlink monitoring device" 389 ---help--- 390 This option enables a monitoring net device for netlink skbs. The 391 purpose of this is to analyze netlink messages with packet sockets. 392 Thus applications like tcpdump will be able to see local netlink 393 messages if they tap into the netlink device, record pcaps for further 394 diagnostics, etc. This is mostly intended for developers or support 395 to debug netlink issues. If unsure, say N. 396 397config NET_VRF 398 tristate "Virtual Routing and Forwarding (Lite)" 399 depends on IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES 400 depends on NET_L3_MASTER_DEV 401 depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n 402 depends on IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES || IPV6=n 403 ---help--- 404 This option enables the support for mapping interfaces into VRF's. The 405 support enables VRF devices. 406 407config VSOCKMON 408 tristate "Virtual vsock monitoring device" 409 depends on VHOST_VSOCK 410 ---help--- 411 This option enables a monitoring net device for vsock sockets. It is 412 mostly intended for developers or support to debug vsock issues. If 413 unsure, say N. 414 415endif # NET_CORE 416 417config SUNGEM_PHY 418 tristate 419 420source "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig" 421 422source "drivers/atm/Kconfig" 423 424source "drivers/net/caif/Kconfig" 425 426source "drivers/net/dsa/Kconfig" 427 428source "drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig" 429 430source "drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig" 431 432source "drivers/net/hippi/Kconfig" 433 434config NET_SB1000 435 tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000" 436 depends on PNP 437 ---help--- 438 This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as 439 NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal 440 cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable 441 TV companies to provide cable modem access. It's a one-way 442 downstream-only cable modem, meaning that your upstream net link is 443 provided by your regular phone modem. 444 445 At present this driver only compiles as a module, so say M here if 446 you have this card. The module will be called sb1000. Then read 447 <file:Documentation/networking/device_drivers/sb1000.txt> for 448 information on how to use this module, as it needs special ppp 449 scripts for establishing a connection. Further documentation 450 and the necessary scripts can be found at: 451 452 <http://www.jacksonville.net/~fventuri/> 453 <http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/sb1000.html> 454 <http://linuxpower.cx/~cable/> 455 456 If you don't have this card, of course say N. 457 458source "drivers/net/phy/Kconfig" 459 460source "drivers/net/plip/Kconfig" 461 462source "drivers/net/ppp/Kconfig" 463 464source "drivers/net/slip/Kconfig" 465 466source "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig" 467 468source "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig" 469 470source "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig" 471 472source "drivers/net/wimax/Kconfig" 473 474source "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig" 475 476source "drivers/net/ieee802154/Kconfig" 477 478config XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND 479 tristate "Xen network device frontend driver" 480 depends on XEN 481 select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND 482 default y 483 help 484 This driver provides support for Xen paravirtual network 485 devices exported by a Xen network driver domain (often 486 domain 0). 487 488 The corresponding Linux backend driver is enabled by the 489 CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND option. 490 491 If you are compiling a kernel for use as Xen guest, you 492 should say Y here. To compile this driver as a module, chose 493 M here: the module will be called xen-netfront. 494 495config XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND 496 tristate "Xen backend network device" 497 depends on XEN_BACKEND 498 help 499 This driver allows the kernel to act as a Xen network driver 500 domain which exports paravirtual network devices to other 501 Xen domains. These devices can be accessed by any operating 502 system that implements a compatible front end. 503 504 The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the 505 CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND configuration option. 506 507 The backend driver presents a standard network device 508 endpoint for each paravirtual network device to the driver 509 domain network stack. These can then be bridged or routed 510 etc in order to provide full network connectivity. 511 512 If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen network driver 513 domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To 514 compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module 515 will be called xen-netback. 516 517config VMXNET3 518 tristate "VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver" 519 depends on PCI && INET 520 depends on !(PAGE_SIZE_64KB || ARM64_64K_PAGES || \ 521 IA64_PAGE_SIZE_64KB || MICROBLAZE_64K_PAGES || \ 522 PARISC_PAGE_SIZE_64KB || PPC_64K_PAGES) 523 help 524 This driver supports VMware's vmxnet3 virtual ethernet NIC. 525 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 526 module will be called vmxnet3. 527 528config FUJITSU_ES 529 tristate "FUJITSU Extended Socket Network Device driver" 530 depends on ACPI 531 help 532 This driver provides support for Extended Socket network device 533 on Extended Partitioning of FUJITSU PRIMEQUEST 2000 E2 series. 534 535config USB4_NET 536 tristate "Networking over USB4 and Thunderbolt cables" 537 depends on USB4 && INET 538 help 539 Select this if you want to create network between two computers 540 over a USB4 and Thunderbolt cables. The driver supports Apple 541 ThunderboltIP protocol and allows communication with any host 542 supporting the same protocol including Windows and macOS. 543 544 To compile this driver a module, choose M here. The module will be 545 called thunderbolt-net. 546 547source "drivers/net/hyperv/Kconfig" 548 549config NETDEVSIM 550 tristate "Simulated networking device" 551 depends on DEBUG_FS 552 depends on INET 553 depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n 554 select NET_DEVLINK 555 help 556 This driver is a developer testing tool and software model that can 557 be used to test various control path networking APIs, especially 558 HW-offload related. 559 560 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 561 will be called netdevsim. 562 563config NET_FAILOVER 564 tristate "Failover driver" 565 select FAILOVER 566 help 567 This provides an automated failover mechanism via APIs to create 568 and destroy a failover master netdev and manages a primary and 569 standby slave netdevs that get registered via the generic failover 570 infrastructure. This can be used by paravirtual drivers to enable 571 an alternate low latency datapath. It also enables live migration of 572 a VM with direct attached VF by failing over to the paravirtual 573 datapath when the VF is unplugged. 574 575endif # NETDEVICES 576