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1 #
2 # IP configuration
3 #
4 config IP_MULTICAST
5 bool "IP: multicasting"
6 help
7 This is code for addressing several networked computers at once,
8 enlarging your kernel by about 2 KB. You need multicasting if you
9 intend to participate in the MBONE, a high bandwidth network on top
10 of the Internet which carries audio and video broadcasts. More
11 information about the MBONE is on the WWW at
12 <http://www-itg.lbl.gov/mbone/>. Information about the multicast
13 capabilities of the various network cards is contained in
14 <file:Documentation/networking/multicast.txt>. For most people, it's
15 safe to say N.
16
17 config IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
18 bool "IP: advanced router"
19 ---help---
20 If you intend to run your Linux box mostly as a router, i.e. as a
21 computer that forwards and redistributes network packets, say Y; you
22 will then be presented with several options that allow more precise
23 control about the routing process.
24
25 The answer to this question won't directly affect the kernel:
26 answering N will just cause the configurator to skip all the
27 questions about advanced routing.
28
29 Note that your box can only act as a router if you enable IP
30 forwarding in your kernel; you can do that by saying Y to "/proc
31 file system support" and "Sysctl support" below and executing the
32 line
33
34 echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
35
36 at boot time after the /proc file system has been mounted.
37
38 If you turn on IP forwarding, you will also get the rp_filter, which
39 automatically rejects incoming packets if the routing table entry
40 for their source address doesn't match the network interface they're
41 arriving on. This has security advantages because it prevents the
42 so-called IP spoofing, however it can pose problems if you use
43 asymmetric routing (packets from you to a host take a different path
44 than packets from that host to you) or if you operate a non-routing
45 host which has several IP addresses on different interfaces. To turn
46 rp_filter off use:
47
48 echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/<device>/rp_filter
49 or
50 echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
51
52 If unsure, say N here.
53
54 choice
55 prompt "Choose IP: FIB lookup algorithm (choose FIB_HASH if unsure)"
56 depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
57 default ASK_IP_FIB_HASH
58
59 config ASK_IP_FIB_HASH
60 bool "FIB_HASH"
61 ---help---
62 Current FIB is very proven and good enough for most users.
63
64 config IP_FIB_TRIE
65 bool "FIB_TRIE"
66 ---help---
67 Use new experimental LC-trie as FIB lookup algorithm.
68 This improves lookup performance if you have a large
69 number of routes.
70
71 LC-trie is a longest matching prefix lookup algorithm which
72 performs better than FIB_HASH for large routing tables.
73 But, it consumes more memory and is more complex.
74
75 LC-trie is described in:
76
77 IP-address lookup using LC-tries. Stefan Nilsson and Gunnar Karlsson
78 IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 17(6):1083-1092, June 1999
79 An experimental study of compression methods for dynamic tries
80 Stefan Nilsson and Matti Tikkanen. Algorithmica, 33(1):19-33, 2002.
81 http://www.nada.kth.se/~snilsson/public/papers/dyntrie2/
82
83 endchoice
84
85 config IP_FIB_HASH
86 def_bool ASK_IP_FIB_HASH || !IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
87
88 config IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES
89 bool "IP: policy routing"
90 depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
91 select FIB_RULES
92 ---help---
93 Normally, a router decides what to do with a received packet based
94 solely on the packet's final destination address. If you say Y here,
95 the Linux router will also be able to take the packet's source
96 address into account. Furthermore, the TOS (Type-Of-Service) field
97 of the packet can be used for routing decisions as well.
98
99 If you are interested in this, please see the preliminary
100 documentation at <http://www.compendium.com.ar/policy-routing.txt>
101 and <ftp://post.tepkom.ru/pub/vol2/Linux/docs/advanced-routing.tex>.
102 You will need supporting software from
103 <ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/net/ip-routing/>.
104
105 If unsure, say N.
106
107 config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH
108 bool "IP: equal cost multipath"
109 depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
110 help
111 Normally, the routing tables specify a single action to be taken in
112 a deterministic manner for a given packet. If you say Y here
113 however, it becomes possible to attach several actions to a packet
114 pattern, in effect specifying several alternative paths to travel
115 for those packets. The router considers all these paths to be of
116 equal "cost" and chooses one of them in a non-deterministic fashion
117 if a matching packet arrives.
118
119 config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED
120 bool "IP: equal cost multipath with caching support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
121 depends on IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH
122 help
123 Normally, equal cost multipath routing is not supported by the
124 routing cache. If you say Y here, alternative routes are cached
125 and on cache lookup a route is chosen in a configurable fashion.
126
127 If unsure, say N.
128
129 config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_RR
130 tristate "MULTIPATH: round robin algorithm"
131 depends on IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED
132 help
133 Mulitpath routes are chosen according to Round Robin
134
135 config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_RANDOM
136 tristate "MULTIPATH: random algorithm"
137 depends on IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED
138 help
139 Multipath routes are chosen in a random fashion. Actually,
140 there is no weight for a route. The advantage of this policy
141 is that it is implemented stateless and therefore introduces only
142 a very small delay.
143
144 config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_WRANDOM
145 tristate "MULTIPATH: weighted random algorithm"
146 depends on IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED
147 help
148 Multipath routes are chosen in a weighted random fashion.
149 The per route weights are the weights visible via ip route 2. As the
150 corresponding state management introduces some overhead routing delay
151 is increased.
152
153 config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_DRR
154 tristate "MULTIPATH: interface round robin algorithm"
155 depends on IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED
156 help
157 Connections are distributed in a round robin fashion over the
158 available interfaces. This policy makes sense if the connections
159 should be primarily distributed on interfaces and not on routes.
160
161 config IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE
162 bool "IP: verbose route monitoring"
163 depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
164 help
165 If you say Y here, which is recommended, then the kernel will print
166 verbose messages regarding the routing, for example warnings about
167 received packets which look strange and could be evidence of an
168 attack or a misconfigured system somewhere. The information is
169 handled by the klogd daemon which is responsible for kernel messages
170 ("man klogd").
171
172 config IP_PNP
173 bool "IP: kernel level autoconfiguration"
174 help
175 This enables automatic configuration of IP addresses of devices and
176 of the routing table during kernel boot, based on either information
177 supplied on the kernel command line or by BOOTP or RARP protocols.
178 You need to say Y only for diskless machines requiring network
179 access to boot (in which case you want to say Y to "Root file system
180 on NFS" as well), because all other machines configure the network
181 in their startup scripts.
182
183 config IP_PNP_DHCP
184 bool "IP: DHCP support"
185 depends on IP_PNP
186 ---help---
187 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
188 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
189 net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be
190 discovered automatically at boot time using the DHCP protocol (a
191 special protocol designed for doing this job), say Y here. In case
192 the boot ROM of your network card was designed for booting Linux and
193 does DHCP itself, providing all necessary information on the kernel
194 command line, you can say N here.
195
196 If unsure, say Y. Note that if you want to use DHCP, a DHCP server
197 must be operating on your network. Read
198 <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for details.
199
200 config IP_PNP_BOOTP
201 bool "IP: BOOTP support"
202 depends on IP_PNP
203 ---help---
204 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
205 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
206 net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be
207 discovered automatically at boot time using the BOOTP protocol (a
208 special protocol designed for doing this job), say Y here. In case
209 the boot ROM of your network card was designed for booting Linux and
210 does BOOTP itself, providing all necessary information on the kernel
211 command line, you can say N here. If unsure, say Y. Note that if you
212 want to use BOOTP, a BOOTP server must be operating on your network.
213 Read <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for details.
214
215 config IP_PNP_RARP
216 bool "IP: RARP support"
217 depends on IP_PNP
218 help
219 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
220 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
221 net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be
222 discovered automatically at boot time using the RARP protocol (an
223 older protocol which is being obsoleted by BOOTP and DHCP), say Y
224 here. Note that if you want to use RARP, a RARP server must be
225 operating on your network. Read <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for
226 details.
227
228 # not yet ready..
229 # bool ' IP: ARP support' CONFIG_IP_PNP_ARP
230 config NET_IPIP
231 tristate "IP: tunneling"
232 select INET_TUNNEL
233 ---help---
234 Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within
235 another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
236 encapsulating protocol. This particular tunneling driver implements
237 encapsulation of IP within IP, which sounds kind of pointless, but
238 can be useful if you want to make your (or some other) machine
239 appear on a different network than it physically is, or to use
240 mobile-IP facilities (allowing laptops to seamlessly move between
241 networks without changing their IP addresses).
242
243 Saying Y to this option will produce two modules ( = code which can
244 be inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you
245 want). Most people won't need this and can say N.
246
247 config NET_IPGRE
248 tristate "IP: GRE tunnels over IP"
249 help
250 Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within
251 another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
252 encapsulating protocol. This particular tunneling driver implements
253 GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) and at this time allows
254 encapsulating of IPv4 or IPv6 over existing IPv4 infrastructure.
255 This driver is useful if the other endpoint is a Cisco router: Cisco
256 likes GRE much better than the other Linux tunneling driver ("IP
257 tunneling" above). In addition, GRE allows multicast redistribution
258 through the tunnel.
259
260 config NET_IPGRE_BROADCAST
261 bool "IP: broadcast GRE over IP"
262 depends on IP_MULTICAST && NET_IPGRE
263 help
264 One application of GRE/IP is to construct a broadcast WAN (Wide Area
265 Network), which looks like a normal Ethernet LAN (Local Area
266 Network), but can be distributed all over the Internet. If you want
267 to do that, say Y here and to "IP multicast routing" below.
268
269 config IP_MROUTE
270 bool "IP: multicast routing"
271 depends on IP_MULTICAST
272 help
273 This is used if you want your machine to act as a router for IP
274 packets that have several destination addresses. It is needed on the
275 MBONE, a high bandwidth network on top of the Internet which carries
276 audio and video broadcasts. In order to do that, you would most
277 likely run the program mrouted. Information about the multicast
278 capabilities of the various network cards is contained in
279 <file:Documentation/networking/multicast.txt>. If you haven't heard
280 about it, you don't need it.
281
282 config IP_PIMSM_V1
283 bool "IP: PIM-SM version 1 support"
284 depends on IP_MROUTE
285 help
286 Kernel side support for Sparse Mode PIM (Protocol Independent
287 Multicast) version 1. This multicast routing protocol is used widely
288 because Cisco supports it. You need special software to use it
289 (pimd-v1). Please see <http://netweb.usc.edu/pim/> for more
290 information about PIM.
291
292 Say Y if you want to use PIM-SM v1. Note that you can say N here if
293 you just want to use Dense Mode PIM.
294
295 config IP_PIMSM_V2
296 bool "IP: PIM-SM version 2 support"
297 depends on IP_MROUTE
298 help
299 Kernel side support for Sparse Mode PIM version 2. In order to use
300 this, you need an experimental routing daemon supporting it (pimd or
301 gated-5). This routing protocol is not used widely, so say N unless
302 you want to play with it.
303
304 config ARPD
305 bool "IP: ARP daemon support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
306 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
307 ---help---
308 Normally, the kernel maintains an internal cache which maps IP
309 addresses to hardware addresses on the local network, so that
310 Ethernet/Token Ring/ etc. frames are sent to the proper address on
311 the physical networking layer. For small networks having a few
312 hundred directly connected hosts or less, keeping this address
313 resolution (ARP) cache inside the kernel works well. However,
314 maintaining an internal ARP cache does not work well for very large
315 switched networks, and will use a lot of kernel memory if TCP/IP
316 connections are made to many machines on the network.
317
318 If you say Y here, the kernel's internal ARP cache will never grow
319 to more than 256 entries (the oldest entries are expired in a LIFO
320 manner) and communication will be attempted with the user space ARP
321 daemon arpd. Arpd then answers the address resolution request either
322 from its own cache or by asking the net.
323
324 This code is experimental and also obsolete. If you want to use it,
325 you need to find a version of the daemon arpd on the net somewhere,
326 and you should also say Y to "Kernel/User network link driver",
327 below. If unsure, say N.
328
329 config SYN_COOKIES
330 bool "IP: TCP syncookie support (disabled per default)"
331 ---help---
332 Normal TCP/IP networking is open to an attack known as "SYN
333 flooding". This denial-of-service attack prevents legitimate remote
334 users from being able to connect to your computer during an ongoing
335 attack and requires very little work from the attacker, who can
336 operate from anywhere on the Internet.
337
338 SYN cookies provide protection against this type of attack. If you
339 say Y here, the TCP/IP stack will use a cryptographic challenge
340 protocol known as "SYN cookies" to enable legitimate users to
341 continue to connect, even when your machine is under attack. There
342 is no need for the legitimate users to change their TCP/IP software;
343 SYN cookies work transparently to them. For technical information
344 about SYN cookies, check out <http://cr.yp.to/syncookies.html>.
345
346 If you are SYN flooded, the source address reported by the kernel is
347 likely to have been forged by the attacker; it is only reported as
348 an aid in tracing the packets to their actual source and should not
349 be taken as absolute truth.
350
351 SYN cookies may prevent correct error reporting on clients when the
352 server is really overloaded. If this happens frequently better turn
353 them off.
354
355 If you say Y here, note that SYN cookies aren't enabled by default;
356 you can enable them by saying Y to "/proc file system support" and
357 "Sysctl support" below and executing the command
358
359 echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies
360
361 at boot time after the /proc file system has been mounted.
362
363 If unsure, say N.
364
365 config INET_AH
366 tristate "IP: AH transformation"
367 select XFRM
368 select CRYPTO
369 select CRYPTO_HMAC
370 select CRYPTO_MD5
371 select CRYPTO_SHA1
372 ---help---
373 Support for IPsec AH.
374
375 If unsure, say Y.
376
377 config INET_ESP
378 tristate "IP: ESP transformation"
379 select XFRM
380 select CRYPTO
381 select CRYPTO_HMAC
382 select CRYPTO_MD5
383 select CRYPTO_CBC
384 select CRYPTO_SHA1
385 select CRYPTO_DES
386 ---help---
387 Support for IPsec ESP.
388
389 If unsure, say Y.
390
391 config INET_IPCOMP
392 tristate "IP: IPComp transformation"
393 select XFRM
394 select INET_XFRM_TUNNEL
395 select CRYPTO
396 select CRYPTO_DEFLATE
397 ---help---
398 Support for IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp) (RFC3173),
399 typically needed for IPsec.
400
401 If unsure, say Y.
402
403 config INET_XFRM_TUNNEL
404 tristate
405 select INET_TUNNEL
406 default n
407
408 config INET_TUNNEL
409 tristate
410 default n
411
412 config INET_XFRM_MODE_TRANSPORT
413 tristate "IP: IPsec transport mode"
414 default y
415 select XFRM
416 ---help---
417 Support for IPsec transport mode.
418
419 If unsure, say Y.
420
421 config INET_XFRM_MODE_TUNNEL
422 tristate "IP: IPsec tunnel mode"
423 default y
424 select XFRM
425 ---help---
426 Support for IPsec tunnel mode.
427
428 If unsure, say Y.
429
430 config INET_XFRM_MODE_BEET
431 tristate "IP: IPsec BEET mode"
432 default y
433 select XFRM
434 ---help---
435 Support for IPsec BEET mode.
436
437 If unsure, say Y.
438
439 config INET_DIAG
440 tristate "INET: socket monitoring interface"
441 default y
442 ---help---
443 Support for INET (TCP, DCCP, etc) socket monitoring interface used by
444 native Linux tools such as ss. ss is included in iproute2, currently
445 downloadable at <http://developer.osdl.org/dev/iproute2>.
446
447 If unsure, say Y.
448
449 config INET_TCP_DIAG
450 depends on INET_DIAG
451 def_tristate INET_DIAG
452
453 menuconfig TCP_CONG_ADVANCED
454 bool "TCP: advanced congestion control"
455 ---help---
456 Support for selection of various TCP congestion control
457 modules.
458
459 Nearly all users can safely say no here, and a safe default
460 selection will be made (CUBIC with new Reno as a fallback).
461
462 If unsure, say N.
463
464 if TCP_CONG_ADVANCED
465
466 config TCP_CONG_BIC
467 tristate "Binary Increase Congestion (BIC) control"
468 default m
469 ---help---
470 BIC-TCP is a sender-side only change that ensures a linear RTT
471 fairness under large windows while offering both scalability and
472 bounded TCP-friendliness. The protocol combines two schemes
473 called additive increase and binary search increase. When the
474 congestion window is large, additive increase with a large
475 increment ensures linear RTT fairness as well as good
476 scalability. Under small congestion windows, binary search
477 increase provides TCP friendliness.
478 See http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/export/bitcp/
479
480 config TCP_CONG_CUBIC
481 tristate "CUBIC TCP"
482 default y
483 ---help---
484 This is version 2.0 of BIC-TCP which uses a cubic growth function
485 among other techniques.
486 See http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/export/bitcp/cubic-paper.pdf
487
488 config TCP_CONG_WESTWOOD
489 tristate "TCP Westwood+"
490 default m
491 ---help---
492 TCP Westwood+ is a sender-side only modification of the TCP Reno
493 protocol stack that optimizes the performance of TCP congestion
494 control. It is based on end-to-end bandwidth estimation to set
495 congestion window and slow start threshold after a congestion
496 episode. Using this estimation, TCP Westwood+ adaptively sets a
497 slow start threshold and a congestion window which takes into
498 account the bandwidth used at the time congestion is experienced.
499 TCP Westwood+ significantly increases fairness wrt TCP Reno in
500 wired networks and throughput over wireless links.
501
502 config TCP_CONG_HTCP
503 tristate "H-TCP"
504 default m
505 ---help---
506 H-TCP is a send-side only modifications of the TCP Reno
507 protocol stack that optimizes the performance of TCP
508 congestion control for high speed network links. It uses a
509 modeswitch to change the alpha and beta parameters of TCP Reno
510 based on network conditions and in a way so as to be fair with
511 other Reno and H-TCP flows.
512
513 config TCP_CONG_HSTCP
514 tristate "High Speed TCP"
515 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
516 default n
517 ---help---
518 Sally Floyd's High Speed TCP (RFC 3649) congestion control.
519 A modification to TCP's congestion control mechanism for use
520 with large congestion windows. A table indicates how much to
521 increase the congestion window by when an ACK is received.
522 For more detail see http://www.icir.org/floyd/hstcp.html
523
524 config TCP_CONG_HYBLA
525 tristate "TCP-Hybla congestion control algorithm"
526 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
527 default n
528 ---help---
529 TCP-Hybla is a sender-side only change that eliminates penalization of
530 long-RTT, large-bandwidth connections, like when satellite legs are
531 involved, especially when sharing a common bottleneck with normal
532 terrestrial connections.
533
534 config TCP_CONG_VEGAS
535 tristate "TCP Vegas"
536 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
537 default n
538 ---help---
539 TCP Vegas is a sender-side only change to TCP that anticipates
540 the onset of congestion by estimating the bandwidth. TCP Vegas
541 adjusts the sending rate by modifying the congestion
542 window. TCP Vegas should provide less packet loss, but it is
543 not as aggressive as TCP Reno.
544
545 config TCP_CONG_SCALABLE
546 tristate "Scalable TCP"
547 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
548 default n
549 ---help---
550 Scalable TCP is a sender-side only change to TCP which uses a
551 MIMD congestion control algorithm which has some nice scaling
552 properties, though is known to have fairness issues.
553 See http://www-lce.eng.cam.ac.uk/~ctk21/scalable/
554
555 config TCP_CONG_LP
556 tristate "TCP Low Priority"
557 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
558 default n
559 ---help---
560 TCP Low Priority (TCP-LP), a distributed algorithm whose goal is
561 to utilize only the excess network bandwidth as compared to the
562 ``fair share`` of bandwidth as targeted by TCP.
563 See http://www-ece.rice.edu/networks/TCP-LP/
564
565 config TCP_CONG_VENO
566 tristate "TCP Veno"
567 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
568 default n
569 ---help---
570 TCP Veno is a sender-side only enhancement of TCP to obtain better
571 throughput over wireless networks. TCP Veno makes use of state
572 distinguishing to circumvent the difficult judgment of the packet loss
573 type. TCP Veno cuts down less congestion window in response to random
574 loss packets.
575 See http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home5/ZHOU0022/papers/CPFu03a.pdf
576
577 choice
578 prompt "Default TCP congestion control"
579 default DEFAULT_CUBIC
580 help
581 Select the TCP congestion control that will be used by default
582 for all connections.
583
584 config DEFAULT_BIC
585 bool "Bic" if TCP_CONG_BIC=y
586
587 config DEFAULT_CUBIC
588 bool "Cubic" if TCP_CONG_CUBIC=y
589
590 config DEFAULT_HTCP
591 bool "Htcp" if TCP_CONG_HTCP=y
592
593 config DEFAULT_VEGAS
594 bool "Vegas" if TCP_CONG_VEGAS=y
595
596 config DEFAULT_WESTWOOD
597 bool "Westwood" if TCP_CONG_WESTWOOD=y
598
599 config DEFAULT_RENO
600 bool "Reno"
601
602 endchoice
603
604 endif
605
606 config TCP_CONG_CUBIC
607 tristate
608 depends on !TCP_CONG_ADVANCED
609 default y
610
611 config DEFAULT_TCP_CONG
612 string
613 default "bic" if DEFAULT_BIC
614 default "cubic" if DEFAULT_CUBIC
615 default "htcp" if DEFAULT_HTCP
616 default "vegas" if DEFAULT_VEGAS
617 default "westwood" if DEFAULT_WESTWOOD
618 default "reno" if DEFAULT_RENO
619 default "cubic"
620
621 config TCP_MD5SIG
622 bool "TCP: MD5 Signature Option support (RFC2385) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
623 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
624 select CRYPTO
625 select CRYPTO_MD5
626 ---help---
627 RFC2385 specifices a method of giving MD5 protection to TCP sessions.
628 Its main (only?) use is to protect BGP sessions between core routers
629 on the Internet.
630
631 If unsure, say N.
632
633 config TCP_MD5SIG_DEBUG
634 bool "TCP: MD5 Signature Option debugging"
635 depends on TCP_MD5SIG
636
637 source "net/ipv4/ipvs/Kconfig"
638
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