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1 #
2 # Network device configuration
3 #
4
5 menuconfig 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.
26 if NETDEVICES
27
28 config MII
29 tristate
30
31 config 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
38 if NET_CORE
39
40 config 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
58 config 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
74 config 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
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".
105
106 config 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
119 source "drivers/net/team/Kconfig"
120
121 config 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
135 config 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
149 config 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
168 config 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
182 config 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
188 config 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
198 config NETPOLL
199 def_bool NETCONSOLE
200
201 config NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
202 def_bool NETPOLL
203
204 config NTB_NETDEV
205 tristate "Virtual Ethernet over NTB"
206 depends on NTB
207
208 config RIONET
209 tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support"
210 depends on RAPIDIO
211
212 config RIONET_TX_SIZE
213 int "Number of outbound queue entries"
214 depends on RIONET
215 default "128"
216
217 config RIONET_RX_SIZE
218 int "Number of inbound queue entries"
219 depends on RIONET
220 default "128"
221
222 config 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
246 config 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
253 config 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
261 config 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
271 endif # NET_CORE
272
273 config SUNGEM_PHY
274 tristate
275
276 source "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig"
277
278 source "drivers/atm/Kconfig"
279
280 source "drivers/net/caif/Kconfig"
281
282 source "drivers/net/dsa/Kconfig"
283
284 source "drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig"
285
286 source "drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig"
287
288 source "drivers/net/hippi/Kconfig"
289
290 config 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
314 source "drivers/net/phy/Kconfig"
315
316 source "drivers/net/plip/Kconfig"
317
318 source "drivers/net/ppp/Kconfig"
319
320 source "drivers/net/slip/Kconfig"
321
322 source "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig"
323
324 source "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig"
325
326 source "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig"
327
328 source "drivers/net/wimax/Kconfig"
329
330 source "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig"
331
332 source "drivers/net/ieee802154/Kconfig"
333
334 config 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
351 config 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
373 config 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
381 source "drivers/net/hyperv/Kconfig"
382
383 endif # NETDEVICES
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