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1 | # |
2 | # Network device configuration | |
3 | # | |
4 | ||
d1c0a65f | 5 | menuconfig NETDEVICES |
ce2d2aed | 6 | default y if UML |
e0009820 | 7 | depends on NET |
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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 | ||
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24 | # All the following symbols are dependent on NETDEVICES - do not repeat |
25 | # that for each of the symbols. | |
26 | if NETDEVICES | |
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28 | config NET_CORE |
29 | default y | |
30 | bool "Network core driver support" | |
253af423 | 31 | ---help--- |
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32 | You can say N here if you do not intend to use any of the |
33 | networking core drivers (i.e. VLAN, bridging, bonding, etc.) | |
34 | ||
35 | if NET_CORE | |
36 | ||
37 | config BONDING | |
38 | tristate "Bonding driver support" | |
39 | depends on INET | |
40 | depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n | |
41 | ---help--- | |
42 | Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet | |
43 | Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco, | |
44 | 'Trunking' by Sun, 802.3ad by the IEEE, and 'Bonding' in Linux. | |
45 | ||
46 | The driver supports multiple bonding modes to allow for both high | |
47 | performance and high availability operation. | |
48 | ||
49 | Refer to <file:Documentation/networking/bonding.txt> for more | |
50 | information. | |
51 | ||
253af423 | 52 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module |
88491d81 | 53 | will be called bonding. |
253af423 | 54 | |
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55 | config DUMMY |
56 | tristate "Dummy net driver support" | |
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57 | ---help--- |
58 | This is essentially a bit-bucket device (i.e. traffic you send to | |
59 | this device is consigned into oblivion) with a configurable IP | |
60 | address. It is most commonly used in order to make your currently | |
61 | inactive SLIP address seem like a real address for local programs. | |
62 | If you use SLIP or PPP, you might want to say Y here. Since this | |
63 | thing often comes in handy, the default is Y. It won't enlarge your | |
64 | kernel either. What a deal. Read about it in the Network | |
65 | Administrator's Guide, available from | |
66 | <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>. | |
67 | ||
68 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module | |
69 | will be called dummy. If you want to use more than one dummy | |
70 | device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module. | |
71 | Instead of 'dummy', the devices will then be called 'dummy0', | |
72 | 'dummy1' etc. | |
73 | ||
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74 | config EQUALIZER |
75 | tristate "EQL (serial line load balancing) support" | |
1da177e4 | 76 | ---help--- |
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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. | |
1da177e4 | 84 | |
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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>. | |
1da177e4 | 89 | |
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90 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module |
91 | will be called eql. If unsure, say N. | |
92 | ||
93 | config 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". | |
1da177e4 | 105 | |
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106 | config MII |
107 | tristate "Generic Media Independent Interface device support" | |
108 | help | |
109 | Most ethernet controllers have MII transceiver either as an external | |
110 | or internal device. It is safe to say Y or M here even if your | |
111 | ethernet card lacks MII. | |
112 | ||
113 | source "drivers/ieee802154/Kconfig" | |
114 | ||
115 | config IFB | |
116 | tristate "Intermediate Functional Block support" | |
117 | depends on NET_CLS_ACT | |
118 | ---help--- | |
119 | This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of | |
120 | resources. | |
1da177e4 | 121 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module |
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122 | will be called ifb. If you want to use more than one ifb |
123 | device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module. | |
124 | Instead of 'ifb', the devices will then be called 'ifb0', | |
125 | 'ifb1' etc. | |
126 | Look at the iproute2 documentation directory for usage etc | |
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128 | config MACVLAN |
129 | tristate "MAC-VLAN support (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
130 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL | |
131 | ---help--- | |
132 | This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to | |
133 | or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface. | |
134 | ||
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135 | Macvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the |
136 | iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-2.6.23 release: | |
137 | ||
138 | "ip link add link <real dev> [ address MAC ] [ NAME ] type macvlan" | |
139 | ||
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140 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module |
141 | will be called macvlan. | |
142 | ||
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143 | config MACVTAP |
144 | tristate "MAC-VLAN based tap driver (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
145 | depends on MACVLAN | |
146 | help | |
147 | This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based | |
148 | on the MAC-VLAN network interface, called macvtap. A macvtap device | |
149 | can be added in the same way as a macvlan device, using 'type | |
150 | macvlan', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface. | |
151 | ||
152 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module | |
153 | will be called macvtap. | |
154 | ||
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155 | config NETCONSOLE |
156 | tristate "Network console logging support" | |
1da177e4 | 157 | ---help--- |
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158 | If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this. |
159 | See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. | |
1da177e4 | 160 | |
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161 | config NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC |
162 | bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets" | |
163 | depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && CONFIGFS_FS && \ | |
164 | !(NETCONSOLE=y && CONFIGFS_FS=m) | |
165 | help | |
166 | This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target | |
167 | parameters (interface, IP addresses, port numbers, MAC addresses) | |
168 | at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs. | |
169 | See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. | |
1da177e4 | 170 | |
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171 | config NETPOLL |
172 | def_bool NETCONSOLE | |
173 | ||
174 | config NETPOLL_TRAP | |
175 | bool "Netpoll traffic trapping" | |
176 | default n | |
177 | depends on NETPOLL | |
178 | ||
179 | config NET_POLL_CONTROLLER | |
180 | def_bool NETPOLL | |
181 | ||
182 | config RIONET | |
183 | tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support" | |
184 | depends on RAPIDIO | |
185 | ||
186 | config RIONET_TX_SIZE | |
187 | int "Number of outbound queue entries" | |
188 | depends on RIONET | |
189 | default "128" | |
190 | ||
191 | config RIONET_RX_SIZE | |
192 | int "Number of inbound queue entries" | |
193 | depends on RIONET | |
194 | default "128" | |
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195 | |
196 | config TUN | |
197 | tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support" | |
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198 | select CRC32 |
199 | ---help--- | |
200 | TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space | |
201 | programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet | |
202 | device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media, | |
203 | receives them from user space program and instead of sending packets | |
204 | via physical media writes them to the user space program. | |
205 | ||
206 | When a program opens /dev/net/tun, driver creates and registers | |
207 | corresponding net device tunX or tapX. After a program closed above | |
208 | devices, driver will automatically delete tunXX or tapXX device and | |
209 | all routes corresponding to it. | |
210 | ||
211 | Please read <file:Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt> for more | |
212 | information. | |
213 | ||
214 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module | |
215 | will be called tun. | |
216 | ||
217 | If you don't know what to use this for, you don't need it. | |
218 | ||
e314dbdc | 219 | config VETH |
6a9a0250 | 220 | tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device" |
e314dbdc | 221 | ---help--- |
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222 | This device is a local ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs. |
223 | When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice | |
224 | versa. | |
e314dbdc | 225 | |
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226 | config VIRTIO_NET |
227 | tristate "Virtio network driver (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
228 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL && VIRTIO | |
229 | ---help--- | |
230 | This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with | |
231 | lguest or QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M. | |
232 | ||
233 | endif # NET_CORE | |
234 | ||
235 | config SUNGEM_PHY | |
236 | tristate | |
237 | ||
238 | source "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig" | |
239 | ||
240 | source "drivers/atm/Kconfig" | |
241 | ||
242 | source "drivers/net/caif/Kconfig" | |
243 | ||
244 | source "drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig" | |
245 | ||
246 | source "drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig" | |
247 | ||
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248 | config NET_SB1000 |
249 | tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000" | |
cbcd2a4c | 250 | depends on PNP |
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251 | ---help--- |
252 | This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as | |
253 | NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal | |
254 | cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable | |
255 | TV companies to provide cable modem access. It's a one-way | |
256 | downstream-only cable modem, meaning that your upstream net link is | |
257 | provided by your regular phone modem. | |
258 | ||
259 | At present this driver only compiles as a module, so say M here if | |
260 | you have this card. The module will be called sb1000. Then read | |
261 | <file:Documentation/networking/README.sb1000> for information on how | |
262 | to use this module, as it needs special ppp scripts for establishing | |
263 | a connection. Further documentation and the necessary scripts can be | |
264 | found at: | |
265 | ||
266 | <http://www.jacksonville.net/~fventuri/> | |
267 | <http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/sb1000.html> | |
268 | <http://linuxpower.cx/~cable/> | |
269 | ||
270 | If you don't have this card, of course say N. | |
271 | ||
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272 | source "drivers/net/phy/Kconfig" |
273 | ||
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274 | source "drivers/net/plip/Kconfig" |
275 | ||
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276 | source "drivers/net/ppp/Kconfig" |
277 | ||
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278 | source "drivers/net/slip/Kconfig" |
279 | ||
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280 | source "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig" |
281 | ||
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282 | source "drivers/net/tokenring/Kconfig" |
283 | ||
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284 | source "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig" |
285 | ||
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286 | source "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig" |
287 | ||
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288 | source "drivers/net/wimax/Kconfig" |
289 | ||
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290 | source "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig" |
291 | ||
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292 | config XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND |
293 | tristate "Xen network device frontend driver" | |
294 | depends on XEN | |
7003087c | 295 | select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND |
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296 | default y |
297 | help | |
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298 | This driver provides support for Xen paravirtual network |
299 | devices exported by a Xen network driver domain (often | |
300 | domain 0). | |
301 | ||
302 | The corresponding Linux backend driver is enabled by the | |
303 | CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND option. | |
304 | ||
305 | If you are compiling a kernel for use as Xen guest, you | |
306 | should say Y here. To compile this driver as a module, chose | |
307 | M here: the module will be called xen-netfront. | |
308 | ||
309 | config XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND | |
310 | tristate "Xen backend network device" | |
311 | depends on XEN_BACKEND | |
312 | help | |
313 | This driver allows the kernel to act as a Xen network driver | |
314 | domain which exports paravirtual network devices to other | |
315 | Xen domains. These devices can be accessed by any operating | |
316 | system that implements a compatible front end. | |
317 | ||
318 | The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the | |
319 | CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND configuration option. | |
320 | ||
321 | The backend driver presents a standard network device | |
322 | endpoint for each paravirtual network device to the driver | |
323 | domain network stack. These can then be bridged or routed | |
324 | etc in order to provide full network connectivity. | |
325 | ||
326 | If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen network driver | |
327 | domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To | |
328 | compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module | |
329 | will be called xen-netback. | |
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d1a890fa | 331 | config VMXNET3 |
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332 | tristate "VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver" |
333 | depends on PCI && INET | |
334 | help | |
335 | This driver supports VMware's vmxnet3 virtual ethernet NIC. | |
336 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the | |
337 | module will be called vmxnet3. | |
d1a890fa | 338 | |
d1c0a65f | 339 | endif # NETDEVICES |