Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | # |
| 2 | # Network device configuration |
| 3 | # |
| 4 | |
Jan Engelhardt | d1c0a65 | 2007-06-13 12:48:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | menuconfig NETDEVICES |
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso | ce2d2ae | 2006-01-18 17:42:59 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | default y if UML |
Jan Engelhardt | e000982 | 2007-07-21 19:11:35 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | depends on NET |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 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 | |
Randy Dunlap | 1618cb0 | 2006-09-25 23:11:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | # All the following symbols are dependent on NETDEVICES - do not repeat |
| 25 | # that for each of the symbols. |
| 26 | if NETDEVICES |
Randy Dunlap | cbcd2a4 | 2005-07-27 13:04:35 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 27 | |
Jamal Hadi Salim | 253af42 | 2006-01-08 22:34:25 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | config IFB |
| 29 | tristate "Intermediate Functional Block support" |
| 30 | depends on NET_CLS_ACT |
| 31 | ---help--- |
Matt LaPlante | 3cb2fcc | 2006-11-30 05:22:59 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of |
Jamal Hadi Salim | 253af42 | 2006-01-08 22:34:25 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | resources. |
| 34 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module |
| 35 | will be called ifb. If you want to use more than one ifb |
| 36 | device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module. |
| 37 | Instead of 'ifb', the devices will then be called 'ifb0', |
| 38 | 'ifb1' etc. |
| 39 | Look at the iproute2 documentation directory for usage etc |
| 40 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 41 | config DUMMY |
| 42 | tristate "Dummy net driver support" |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | ---help--- |
| 44 | This is essentially a bit-bucket device (i.e. traffic you send to |
| 45 | this device is consigned into oblivion) with a configurable IP |
| 46 | address. It is most commonly used in order to make your currently |
| 47 | inactive SLIP address seem like a real address for local programs. |
| 48 | If you use SLIP or PPP, you might want to say Y here. Since this |
| 49 | thing often comes in handy, the default is Y. It won't enlarge your |
| 50 | kernel either. What a deal. Read about it in the Network |
| 51 | Administrator's Guide, available from |
| 52 | <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>. |
| 53 | |
| 54 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module |
| 55 | will be called dummy. If you want to use more than one dummy |
| 56 | device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module. |
| 57 | Instead of 'dummy', the devices will then be called 'dummy0', |
| 58 | 'dummy1' etc. |
| 59 | |
| 60 | config BONDING |
| 61 | tristate "Bonding driver support" |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 62 | depends on INET |
Brian Haley | 305d552 | 2008-11-04 17:51:14 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 63 | depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 64 | ---help--- |
| 65 | Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet |
| 66 | Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco, |
| 67 | 'Trunking' by Sun, 802.3ad by the IEEE, and 'Bonding' in Linux. |
| 68 | |
| 69 | The driver supports multiple bonding modes to allow for both high |
Jon Mason | 47c5143 | 2006-02-12 11:53:04 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 70 | performance and high availability operation. |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 71 | |
| 72 | Refer to <file:Documentation/networking/bonding.txt> for more |
| 73 | information. |
| 74 | |
| 75 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module |
| 76 | will be called bonding. |
| 77 | |
Patrick McHardy | b863ceb | 2007-07-14 18:55:06 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 78 | config MACVLAN |
| 79 | tristate "MAC-VLAN support (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
| 80 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL |
| 81 | ---help--- |
| 82 | This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to |
| 83 | or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface. |
| 84 | |
Patrick McHardy | 3dbf8d5 | 2008-02-26 17:52:05 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 85 | Macvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the |
| 86 | iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-2.6.23 release: |
| 87 | |
| 88 | "ip link add link <real dev> [ address MAC ] [ NAME ] type macvlan" |
| 89 | |
Patrick McHardy | b863ceb | 2007-07-14 18:55:06 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 90 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module |
| 91 | will be called macvlan. |
| 92 | |
Arnd Bergmann | 20d29d7 | 2010-01-30 12:24:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 93 | config MACVTAP |
| 94 | tristate "MAC-VLAN based tap driver (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
| 95 | depends on MACVLAN |
| 96 | help |
| 97 | This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based |
| 98 | on the MAC-VLAN network interface, called macvtap. A macvtap device |
| 99 | can be added in the same way as a macvlan device, using 'type |
| 100 | macvlan', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface. |
| 101 | |
| 102 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module |
| 103 | will be called macvtap. |
| 104 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 105 | config EQUALIZER |
| 106 | tristate "EQL (serial line load balancing) support" |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 107 | ---help--- |
| 108 | If you have two serial connections to some other computer (this |
| 109 | usually requires two modems and two telephone lines) and you use |
| 110 | SLIP (the protocol for sending Internet traffic over telephone |
| 111 | lines) or PPP (a better SLIP) on them, you can make them behave like |
| 112 | one double speed connection using this driver. Naturally, this has |
| 113 | to be supported at the other end as well, either with a similar EQL |
| 114 | Linux driver or with a Livingston Portmaster 2e. |
| 115 | |
| 116 | Say Y if you want this and read |
| 117 | <file:Documentation/networking/eql.txt>. You may also want to read |
| 118 | section 6.2 of the NET-3-HOWTO, available from |
| 119 | <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. |
| 120 | |
| 121 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module |
| 122 | will be called eql. If unsure, say N. |
| 123 | |
| 124 | config TUN |
| 125 | tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support" |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 126 | select CRC32 |
| 127 | ---help--- |
| 128 | TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space |
| 129 | programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet |
| 130 | device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media, |
| 131 | receives them from user space program and instead of sending packets |
| 132 | via physical media writes them to the user space program. |
| 133 | |
| 134 | When a program opens /dev/net/tun, driver creates and registers |
| 135 | corresponding net device tunX or tapX. After a program closed above |
| 136 | devices, driver will automatically delete tunXX or tapXX device and |
| 137 | all routes corresponding to it. |
| 138 | |
| 139 | Please read <file:Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt> for more |
| 140 | information. |
| 141 | |
| 142 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module |
| 143 | will be called tun. |
| 144 | |
| 145 | If you don't know what to use this for, you don't need it. |
| 146 | |
Pavel Emelyanov | e314dbd | 2007-09-25 16:14:46 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 147 | config VETH |
Rusty Russell | 6a9a025 | 2007-11-06 20:35:55 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 148 | tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device" |
Pavel Emelyanov | e314dbd | 2007-09-25 16:14:46 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 149 | ---help--- |
Rusty Russell | 6a9a025 | 2007-11-06 20:35:55 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 150 | This device is a local ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs. |
| 151 | When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice |
| 152 | versa. |
Pavel Emelyanov | e314dbd | 2007-09-25 16:14:46 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 153 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 154 | config NET_SB1000 |
| 155 | tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000" |
Randy Dunlap | cbcd2a4 | 2005-07-27 13:04:35 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 156 | depends on PNP |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 157 | ---help--- |
| 158 | This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as |
| 159 | NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal |
| 160 | cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable |
| 161 | TV companies to provide cable modem access. It's a one-way |
| 162 | downstream-only cable modem, meaning that your upstream net link is |
| 163 | provided by your regular phone modem. |
| 164 | |
| 165 | At present this driver only compiles as a module, so say M here if |
| 166 | you have this card. The module will be called sb1000. Then read |
| 167 | <file:Documentation/networking/README.sb1000> for information on how |
| 168 | to use this module, as it needs special ppp scripts for establishing |
| 169 | a connection. Further documentation and the necessary scripts can be |
| 170 | found at: |
| 171 | |
| 172 | <http://www.jacksonville.net/~fventuri/> |
| 173 | <http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/sb1000.html> |
| 174 | <http://linuxpower.cx/~cable/> |
| 175 | |
| 176 | If you don't have this card, of course say N. |
| 177 | |
Adrian Bunk | f65fd8f | 2006-01-05 22:45:41 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 178 | source "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig" |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 179 | |
Randy Dunlap | 81ccb49 | 2010-10-13 15:18:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 180 | config MII |
| 181 | tristate "Generic Media Independent Interface device support" |
| 182 | help |
| 183 | Most ethernet controllers have MII transceiver either as an external |
| 184 | or internal device. It is safe to say Y or M here even if your |
| 185 | ethernet card lacks MII. |
| 186 | |
Andy Fleming | 00db818 | 2005-07-30 19:31:23 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 187 | source "drivers/net/phy/Kconfig" |
| 188 | |
David S. Miller | 19e2f6f | 2011-08-15 23:10:39 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 189 | config SUNGEM_PHY |
| 190 | tristate |
| 191 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 192 | # |
| 193 | # Ethernet |
| 194 | # |
| 195 | |
Jeff Kirsher | c1abc95 | 2011-03-29 18:25:21 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 196 | source "drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig" |
| 197 | |
Jeff Kirsher | 33f810b | 2011-07-31 00:06:29 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 198 | source "drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig" |
| 199 | |
Jeff Kirsher | 18e635f | 2011-08-03 03:01:58 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 200 | source "drivers/net/plip/Kconfig" |
| 201 | |
Jeff Kirsher | b5451d7 | 2011-08-03 03:17:13 -0700 | [diff] [blame^] | 202 | source "drivers/net/slip/Kconfig" |
| 203 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 204 | source "drivers/net/tokenring/Kconfig" |
| 205 | |
| 206 | source "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig" |
| 207 | |
Inaky Perez-Gonzalez | 143ee2d | 2008-12-23 16:18:48 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 208 | source "drivers/net/wimax/Kconfig" |
| 209 | |
Jeff Garzik | 5b2fc49 | 2007-05-09 21:31:55 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 210 | source "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig" |
| 211 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 212 | source "drivers/net/pcmcia/Kconfig" |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 213 | |
Jeff Kirsher | 224cf5a | 2011-07-31 02:38:19 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 214 | source "drivers/net/ppp/Kconfig" |
| 215 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 216 | source "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig" |
| 217 | |
| 218 | source "drivers/atm/Kconfig" |
| 219 | |
Sergey Lapin | 8459464 | 2009-06-08 12:18:51 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 220 | source "drivers/ieee802154/Kconfig" |
| 221 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 222 | source "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig" |
| 223 | |
Sjur Braendeland | 9b27105 | 2010-03-30 13:56:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 224 | source "drivers/net/caif/Kconfig" |
| 225 | |
Jeremy Fitzhardinge | 0d16021 | 2007-07-17 18:37:06 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 226 | config XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND |
| 227 | tristate "Xen network device frontend driver" |
| 228 | depends on XEN |
Jeremy Fitzhardinge | 7003087 | 2009-03-27 16:28:34 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 229 | select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND |
Jeremy Fitzhardinge | 0d16021 | 2007-07-17 18:37:06 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 230 | default y |
| 231 | help |
Ian Campbell | f942dc2 | 2011-03-15 00:06:18 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 232 | This driver provides support for Xen paravirtual network |
| 233 | devices exported by a Xen network driver domain (often |
| 234 | domain 0). |
| 235 | |
| 236 | The corresponding Linux backend driver is enabled by the |
| 237 | CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND option. |
| 238 | |
| 239 | If you are compiling a kernel for use as Xen guest, you |
| 240 | should say Y here. To compile this driver as a module, chose |
| 241 | M here: the module will be called xen-netfront. |
| 242 | |
| 243 | config XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND |
| 244 | tristate "Xen backend network device" |
| 245 | depends on XEN_BACKEND |
| 246 | help |
| 247 | This driver allows the kernel to act as a Xen network driver |
| 248 | domain which exports paravirtual network devices to other |
| 249 | Xen domains. These devices can be accessed by any operating |
| 250 | system that implements a compatible front end. |
| 251 | |
| 252 | The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the |
| 253 | CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND configuration option. |
| 254 | |
| 255 | The backend driver presents a standard network device |
| 256 | endpoint for each paravirtual network device to the driver |
| 257 | domain network stack. These can then be bridged or routed |
| 258 | etc in order to provide full network connectivity. |
| 259 | |
| 260 | If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen network driver |
| 261 | domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To |
| 262 | compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module |
| 263 | will be called xen-netback. |
Jeremy Fitzhardinge | 0d16021 | 2007-07-17 18:37:06 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 264 | |
Matt Porter | f89efd5 | 2005-09-09 12:10:10 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 265 | config RIONET |
| 266 | tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support" |
Randy Dunlap | a81c52a | 2006-11-01 21:18:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 267 | depends on RAPIDIO |
Matt Porter | f89efd5 | 2005-09-09 12:10:10 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 268 | |
| 269 | config RIONET_TX_SIZE |
| 270 | int "Number of outbound queue entries" |
| 271 | depends on RIONET |
| 272 | default "128" |
| 273 | |
| 274 | config RIONET_RX_SIZE |
| 275 | int "Number of inbound queue entries" |
| 276 | depends on RIONET |
| 277 | default "128" |
| 278 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 279 | config NET_FC |
| 280 | bool "Fibre Channel driver support" |
Randy Dunlap | cbcd2a4 | 2005-07-27 13:04:35 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 281 | depends on SCSI && PCI |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 282 | help |
| 283 | Fibre Channel is a high speed serial protocol mainly used to connect |
| 284 | large storage devices to the computer; it is compatible with and |
| 285 | intended to replace SCSI. |
| 286 | |
| 287 | If you intend to use Fibre Channel, you need to have a Fibre channel |
| 288 | adaptor card in your computer; say Y here and to the driver for your |
| 289 | adaptor below. You also should have said Y to "SCSI support" and |
| 290 | "SCSI generic support". |
| 291 | |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 292 | config NETCONSOLE |
Amerigo Wang | ecbacf8 | 2010-03-21 23:59:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 293 | tristate "Network console logging support" |
Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 294 | ---help--- |
| 295 | If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this. |
| 296 | See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. |
| 297 | |
Satyam Sharma | 0bcc181 | 2007-08-10 15:35:05 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 298 | config NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC |
Amerigo Wang | ecbacf8 | 2010-03-21 23:59:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 299 | bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets" |
Randy Dunlap | 58fa459 | 2011-06-21 08:01:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 300 | depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && CONFIGFS_FS && \ |
| 301 | !(NETCONSOLE=y && CONFIGFS_FS=m) |
Satyam Sharma | 0bcc181 | 2007-08-10 15:35:05 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 302 | help |
| 303 | This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target |
| 304 | parameters (interface, IP addresses, port numbers, MAC addresses) |
| 305 | at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs. |
| 306 | See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. |
| 307 | |
Randy Dunlap | 5420899 | 2005-07-18 13:45:12 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 308 | config NETPOLL |
| 309 | def_bool NETCONSOLE |
| 310 | |
Randy Dunlap | 5420899 | 2005-07-18 13:45:12 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 311 | config NETPOLL_TRAP |
| 312 | bool "Netpoll traffic trapping" |
| 313 | default n |
| 314 | depends on NETPOLL |
| 315 | |
| 316 | config NET_POLL_CONTROLLER |
| 317 | def_bool NETPOLL |
| 318 | |
Rusty Russell | 296f96f | 2007-10-22 11:03:37 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 319 | config VIRTIO_NET |
| 320 | tristate "Virtio network driver (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
| 321 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL && VIRTIO |
| 322 | ---help--- |
Anthony Liguori | 0ad07ec | 2007-11-07 20:46:31 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 323 | This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with |
Philippe De Muyter | e85eb11 | 2010-11-11 12:31:21 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 324 | lguest or QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M. |
Rusty Russell | 296f96f | 2007-10-22 11:03:37 +1000 | [diff] [blame] | 325 | |
Shreyas Bhatewara | d1a890fa | 2009-10-13 00:15:51 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 326 | config VMXNET3 |
Philippe De Muyter | e85eb11 | 2010-11-11 12:31:21 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 327 | tristate "VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver" |
| 328 | depends on PCI && INET |
| 329 | help |
| 330 | This driver supports VMware's vmxnet3 virtual ethernet NIC. |
| 331 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the |
| 332 | module will be called vmxnet3. |
Shreyas Bhatewara | d1a890fa | 2009-10-13 00:15:51 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 333 | |
Jan Engelhardt | d1c0a65 | 2007-06-13 12:48:53 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 334 | endif # NETDEVICES |