2 # Network device configuration
8 bool "Network device support"
10 You can say N here if you don't intend to connect your Linux box to
11 any other computer at all.
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.
19 See also "The Linux Network Administrator's Guide" by Olaf Kirch and
20 Terry Dawson. Available at <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
24 # All the following symbols are dependent on NETDEVICES - do not repeat
25 # that for each of the symbols.
33 bool "Network core driver support"
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.)
41 tristate "Bonding driver support"
43 depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n
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.
49 The driver supports multiple bonding modes to allow for both high
50 performance and high availability operation.
52 Refer to <file:Documentation/networking/bonding.txt> for more
55 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
56 will be called bonding.
59 tristate "Dummy net driver support"
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>.
71 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
75 tristate "EQL (serial line load balancing) support"
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.
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>.
90 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
91 will be called eql. If unsure, say N.
94 bool "Fibre Channel driver support"
95 depends on SCSI && PCI
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.
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".
107 tristate "Intermediate Functional Block support"
108 depends on NET_CLS_ACT
110 This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of
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',
117 Look at the iproute2 documentation directory for usage etc
119 source "drivers/net/team/Kconfig"
122 tristate "MAC-VLAN support"
124 This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to
125 or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface.
127 Macvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the
128 iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-2.6.23 release:
130 "ip link add link <real dev> [ address MAC ] [ NAME ] type macvlan"
132 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
133 will be called macvlan.
136 tristate "MAC-VLAN based tap driver"
139 This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based
140 on the MAC-VLAN network interface, called macvtap. A macvtap device
141 can be added in the same way as a macvlan device, using 'type
142 macvtap', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface.
144 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
145 will be called macvtap.
148 tristate "Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN)"
152 This allows one to create vxlan virtual interfaces that provide
153 Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. VXLAN is often used
154 to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments.
155 For more information see:
156 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-02
158 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
159 will be called vxlan.
162 tristate "Network console logging support"
164 If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this.
165 See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details.
167 config NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC
168 bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets"
169 depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && CONFIGFS_FS && \
170 !(NETCONSOLE=y && CONFIGFS_FS=m)
172 This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target
173 parameters (interface, IP addresses, port numbers, MAC addresses)
174 at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs.
175 See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details.
180 config NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
184 tristate "Virtual Ethernet over NTB"
188 tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support"
191 config RIONET_TX_SIZE
192 int "Number of outbound queue entries"
196 config RIONET_RX_SIZE
197 int "Number of inbound queue entries"
202 tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support"
205 TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space
206 programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet
207 device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media,
208 receives them from user space program and instead of sending packets
209 via physical media writes them to the user space program.
211 When a program opens /dev/net/tun, driver creates and registers
212 corresponding net device tunX or tapX. After a program closed above
213 devices, driver will automatically delete tunXX or tapXX device and
214 all routes corresponding to it.
216 Please read <file:Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt> for more
219 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
222 If you don't know what to use this for, you don't need it.
225 tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device"
227 This device is a local ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs.
228 When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice
232 tristate "Virtio network driver"
236 This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with
237 lguest or QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M.
240 tristate "Virtual netlink monitoring device"
242 This option enables a monitoring net device for netlink skbs. The
243 purpose of this is to analyze netlink messages with packet sockets.
244 Thus applications like tcpdump will be able to see local netlink
245 messages if they tap into the netlink device, record pcaps for further
246 diagnostics, etc. This is mostly intended for developers or support
247 to debug netlink issues. If unsure, say N.
254 source "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig"
256 source "drivers/atm/Kconfig"
258 source "drivers/net/caif/Kconfig"
260 source "drivers/net/dsa/Kconfig"
262 source "drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig"
264 source "drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig"
266 source "drivers/net/hippi/Kconfig"
269 tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000"
272 This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as
273 NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal
274 cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable
275 TV companies to provide cable modem access. It's a one-way
276 downstream-only cable modem, meaning that your upstream net link is
277 provided by your regular phone modem.
279 At present this driver only compiles as a module, so say M here if
280 you have this card. The module will be called sb1000. Then read
281 <file:Documentation/networking/README.sb1000> for information on how
282 to use this module, as it needs special ppp scripts for establishing
283 a connection. Further documentation and the necessary scripts can be
286 <http://www.jacksonville.net/~fventuri/>
287 <http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/sb1000.html>
288 <http://linuxpower.cx/~cable/>
290 If you don't have this card, of course say N.
292 source "drivers/net/phy/Kconfig"
294 source "drivers/net/plip/Kconfig"
296 source "drivers/net/ppp/Kconfig"
298 source "drivers/net/slip/Kconfig"
300 source "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig"
302 source "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig"
304 source "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig"
306 source "drivers/net/wimax/Kconfig"
308 source "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig"
310 source "drivers/net/ieee802154/Kconfig"
312 config XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND
313 tristate "Xen network device frontend driver"
315 select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND
318 This driver provides support for Xen paravirtual network
319 devices exported by a Xen network driver domain (often
322 The corresponding Linux backend driver is enabled by the
323 CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND option.
325 If you are compiling a kernel for use as Xen guest, you
326 should say Y here. To compile this driver as a module, chose
327 M here: the module will be called xen-netfront.
329 config XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND
330 tristate "Xen backend network device"
331 depends on XEN_BACKEND
333 This driver allows the kernel to act as a Xen network driver
334 domain which exports paravirtual network devices to other
335 Xen domains. These devices can be accessed by any operating
336 system that implements a compatible front end.
338 The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the
339 CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND configuration option.
341 The backend driver presents a standard network device
342 endpoint for each paravirtual network device to the driver
343 domain network stack. These can then be bridged or routed
344 etc in order to provide full network connectivity.
346 If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen network driver
347 domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To
348 compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module
349 will be called xen-netback.
352 tristate "VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver"
353 depends on PCI && INET
355 This driver supports VMware's vmxnet3 virtual ethernet NIC.
356 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
357 module will be called vmxnet3.
359 source "drivers/net/hyperv/Kconfig"