5 bool "IP: multicasting"
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.savetz.com/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
17 config IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
18 bool "IP: advanced router"
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.
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.
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
34 echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
36 at boot time after the /proc file system has been mounted.
38 If you turn on IP forwarding, you should consider 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
48 echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/<device>/rp_filter
50 echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
52 Note that some distributions enable it in startup scripts.
53 For details about rp_filter strict and loose mode read
54 <file:Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt>.
56 If unsure, say N here.
59 prompt "Choose IP: FIB lookup algorithm (choose FIB_HASH if unsure)"
60 depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
61 default ASK_IP_FIB_HASH
63 config ASK_IP_FIB_HASH
66 Current FIB is very proven and good enough for most users.
71 Use new experimental LC-trie as FIB lookup algorithm.
72 This improves lookup performance if you have a large
75 LC-trie is a longest matching prefix lookup algorithm which
76 performs better than FIB_HASH for large routing tables.
77 But, it consumes more memory and is more complex.
79 LC-trie is described in:
81 IP-address lookup using LC-tries. Stefan Nilsson and Gunnar Karlsson
82 IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 17(6):1083-1092,
85 An experimental study of compression methods for dynamic tries
86 Stefan Nilsson and Matti Tikkanen. Algorithmica, 33(1):19-33, 2002.
87 http://www.nada.kth.se/~snilsson/public/papers/dyntrie2/
92 def_bool ASK_IP_FIB_HASH || !IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
94 config IP_FIB_TRIE_STATS
95 bool "FIB TRIE statistics"
96 depends on IP_FIB_TRIE
98 Keep track of statistics on structure of FIB TRIE table.
99 Useful for testing and measuring TRIE performance.
101 config IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES
102 bool "IP: policy routing"
103 depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
106 Normally, a router decides what to do with a received packet based
107 solely on the packet's final destination address. If you say Y here,
108 the Linux router will also be able to take the packet's source
109 address into account. Furthermore, the TOS (Type-Of-Service) field
110 of the packet can be used for routing decisions as well.
112 If you are interested in this, please see the preliminary
113 documentation at <http://www.compendium.com.ar/policy-routing.txt>
114 and <ftp://post.tepkom.ru/pub/vol2/Linux/docs/advanced-routing.tex>.
115 You will need supporting software from
116 <ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/net/ip-routing/>.
120 config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH
121 bool "IP: equal cost multipath"
122 depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
124 Normally, the routing tables specify a single action to be taken in
125 a deterministic manner for a given packet. If you say Y here
126 however, it becomes possible to attach several actions to a packet
127 pattern, in effect specifying several alternative paths to travel
128 for those packets. The router considers all these paths to be of
129 equal "cost" and chooses one of them in a non-deterministic fashion
130 if a matching packet arrives.
132 config IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE
133 bool "IP: verbose route monitoring"
134 depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
136 If you say Y here, which is recommended, then the kernel will print
137 verbose messages regarding the routing, for example warnings about
138 received packets which look strange and could be evidence of an
139 attack or a misconfigured system somewhere. The information is
140 handled by the klogd daemon which is responsible for kernel messages
144 bool "IP: kernel level autoconfiguration"
146 This enables automatic configuration of IP addresses of devices and
147 of the routing table during kernel boot, based on either information
148 supplied on the kernel command line or by BOOTP or RARP protocols.
149 You need to say Y only for diskless machines requiring network
150 access to boot (in which case you want to say Y to "Root file system
151 on NFS" as well), because all other machines configure the network
152 in their startup scripts.
155 bool "IP: DHCP support"
158 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
159 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
160 net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be
161 discovered automatically at boot time using the DHCP protocol (a
162 special protocol designed for doing this job), say Y here. In case
163 the boot ROM of your network card was designed for booting Linux and
164 does DHCP itself, providing all necessary information on the kernel
165 command line, you can say N here.
167 If unsure, say Y. Note that if you want to use DHCP, a DHCP server
168 must be operating on your network. Read
169 <file:Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt> for details.
172 bool "IP: BOOTP support"
175 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
176 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
177 net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be
178 discovered automatically at boot time using the BOOTP protocol (a
179 special protocol designed for doing this job), say Y here. In case
180 the boot ROM of your network card was designed for booting Linux and
181 does BOOTP itself, providing all necessary information on the kernel
182 command line, you can say N here. If unsure, say Y. Note that if you
183 want to use BOOTP, a BOOTP server must be operating on your network.
184 Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt> for details.
187 bool "IP: RARP support"
190 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
191 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
192 net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be
193 discovered automatically at boot time using the RARP protocol (an
194 older protocol which is being obsoleted by BOOTP and DHCP), say Y
195 here. Note that if you want to use RARP, a RARP server must be
196 operating on your network. Read
197 <file:Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt> for details.
200 # bool ' IP: ARP support' CONFIG_IP_PNP_ARP
202 tristate "IP: tunneling"
205 Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within
206 another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
207 encapsulating protocol. This particular tunneling driver implements
208 encapsulation of IP within IP, which sounds kind of pointless, but
209 can be useful if you want to make your (or some other) machine
210 appear on a different network than it physically is, or to use
211 mobile-IP facilities (allowing laptops to seamlessly move between
212 networks without changing their IP addresses).
214 Saying Y to this option will produce two modules ( = code which can
215 be inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you
216 want). Most people won't need this and can say N.
219 tristate "IP: GRE tunnels over IP"
220 depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n
222 Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within
223 another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
224 encapsulating protocol. This particular tunneling driver implements
225 GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) and at this time allows
226 encapsulating of IPv4 or IPv6 over existing IPv4 infrastructure.
227 This driver is useful if the other endpoint is a Cisco router: Cisco
228 likes GRE much better than the other Linux tunneling driver ("IP
229 tunneling" above). In addition, GRE allows multicast redistribution
232 config NET_IPGRE_BROADCAST
233 bool "IP: broadcast GRE over IP"
234 depends on IP_MULTICAST && NET_IPGRE
236 One application of GRE/IP is to construct a broadcast WAN (Wide Area
237 Network), which looks like a normal Ethernet LAN (Local Area
238 Network), but can be distributed all over the Internet. If you want
239 to do that, say Y here and to "IP multicast routing" below.
242 bool "IP: multicast routing"
243 depends on IP_MULTICAST
245 This is used if you want your machine to act as a router for IP
246 packets that have several destination addresses. It is needed on the
247 MBONE, a high bandwidth network on top of the Internet which carries
248 audio and video broadcasts. In order to do that, you would most
249 likely run the program mrouted. Information about the multicast
250 capabilities of the various network cards is contained in
251 <file:Documentation/networking/multicast.txt>. If you haven't heard
252 about it, you don't need it.
254 config IP_MROUTE_MULTIPLE_TABLES
255 bool "IP: multicast policy routing"
256 depends on IP_MROUTE && IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
259 Normally, a multicast router runs a userspace daemon and decides
260 what to do with a multicast packet based on the source and
261 destination addresses. If you say Y here, the multicast router
262 will also be able to take interfaces and packet marks into
263 account and run multiple instances of userspace daemons
264 simultaneously, each one handling a single table.
269 bool "IP: PIM-SM version 1 support"
272 Kernel side support for Sparse Mode PIM (Protocol Independent
273 Multicast) version 1. This multicast routing protocol is used widely
274 because Cisco supports it. You need special software to use it
275 (pimd-v1). Please see <http://netweb.usc.edu/pim/> for more
276 information about PIM.
278 Say Y if you want to use PIM-SM v1. Note that you can say N here if
279 you just want to use Dense Mode PIM.
282 bool "IP: PIM-SM version 2 support"
285 Kernel side support for Sparse Mode PIM version 2. In order to use
286 this, you need an experimental routing daemon supporting it (pimd or
287 gated-5). This routing protocol is not used widely, so say N unless
288 you want to play with it.
291 bool "IP: ARP daemon support"
293 The kernel maintains an internal cache which maps IP addresses to
294 hardware addresses on the local network, so that Ethernet/Token Ring/
295 etc. frames are sent to the proper address on the physical networking
296 layer. Normally, kernel uses the ARP protocol to resolve these
299 Saying Y here adds support to have an user space daemon to do this
300 resolution instead. This is useful for implementing an alternate
301 address resolution protocol (e.g. NHRP on mGRE tunnels) and also for
307 bool "IP: TCP syncookie support"
309 Normal TCP/IP networking is open to an attack known as "SYN
310 flooding". This denial-of-service attack prevents legitimate remote
311 users from being able to connect to your computer during an ongoing
312 attack and requires very little work from the attacker, who can
313 operate from anywhere on the Internet.
315 SYN cookies provide protection against this type of attack. If you
316 say Y here, the TCP/IP stack will use a cryptographic challenge
317 protocol known as "SYN cookies" to enable legitimate users to
318 continue to connect, even when your machine is under attack. There
319 is no need for the legitimate users to change their TCP/IP software;
320 SYN cookies work transparently to them. For technical information
321 about SYN cookies, check out <http://cr.yp.to/syncookies.html>.
323 If you are SYN flooded, the source address reported by the kernel is
324 likely to have been forged by the attacker; it is only reported as
325 an aid in tracing the packets to their actual source and should not
326 be taken as absolute truth.
328 SYN cookies may prevent correct error reporting on clients when the
329 server is really overloaded. If this happens frequently better turn
332 If you say Y here, you can disable SYN cookies at run time by
333 saying Y to "/proc file system support" and
334 "Sysctl support" below and executing the command
336 echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies
338 after the /proc file system has been mounted.
343 tristate "IP: AH transformation"
350 Support for IPsec AH.
355 tristate "IP: ESP transformation"
358 select CRYPTO_AUTHENC
365 Support for IPsec ESP.
370 tristate "IP: IPComp transformation"
371 select INET_XFRM_TUNNEL
374 Support for IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp) (RFC3173),
375 typically needed for IPsec.
379 config INET_XFRM_TUNNEL
388 config INET_XFRM_MODE_TRANSPORT
389 tristate "IP: IPsec transport mode"
393 Support for IPsec transport mode.
397 config INET_XFRM_MODE_TUNNEL
398 tristate "IP: IPsec tunnel mode"
402 Support for IPsec tunnel mode.
406 config INET_XFRM_MODE_BEET
407 tristate "IP: IPsec BEET mode"
411 Support for IPsec BEET mode.
416 tristate "Large Receive Offload (ipv4/tcp)"
419 Support for Large Receive Offload (ipv4/tcp).
424 tristate "INET: socket monitoring interface"
427 Support for INET (TCP, DCCP, etc) socket monitoring interface used by
428 native Linux tools such as ss. ss is included in iproute2, currently
429 downloadable at <http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Iproute2>.
435 def_tristate INET_DIAG
437 menuconfig TCP_CONG_ADVANCED
438 bool "TCP: advanced congestion control"
440 Support for selection of various TCP congestion control
443 Nearly all users can safely say no here, and a safe default
444 selection will be made (CUBIC with new Reno as a fallback).
451 tristate "Binary Increase Congestion (BIC) control"
454 BIC-TCP is a sender-side only change that ensures a linear RTT
455 fairness under large windows while offering both scalability and
456 bounded TCP-friendliness. The protocol combines two schemes
457 called additive increase and binary search increase. When the
458 congestion window is large, additive increase with a large
459 increment ensures linear RTT fairness as well as good
460 scalability. Under small congestion windows, binary search
461 increase provides TCP friendliness.
462 See http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/export/bitcp/
464 config TCP_CONG_CUBIC
468 This is version 2.0 of BIC-TCP which uses a cubic growth function
469 among other techniques.
470 See http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/export/bitcp/cubic-paper.pdf
472 config TCP_CONG_WESTWOOD
473 tristate "TCP Westwood+"
476 TCP Westwood+ is a sender-side only modification of the TCP Reno
477 protocol stack that optimizes the performance of TCP congestion
478 control. It is based on end-to-end bandwidth estimation to set
479 congestion window and slow start threshold after a congestion
480 episode. Using this estimation, TCP Westwood+ adaptively sets a
481 slow start threshold and a congestion window which takes into
482 account the bandwidth used at the time congestion is experienced.
483 TCP Westwood+ significantly increases fairness wrt TCP Reno in
484 wired networks and throughput over wireless links.
490 H-TCP is a send-side only modifications of the TCP Reno
491 protocol stack that optimizes the performance of TCP
492 congestion control for high speed network links. It uses a
493 modeswitch to change the alpha and beta parameters of TCP Reno
494 based on network conditions and in a way so as to be fair with
495 other Reno and H-TCP flows.
497 config TCP_CONG_HSTCP
498 tristate "High Speed TCP"
499 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
502 Sally Floyd's High Speed TCP (RFC 3649) congestion control.
503 A modification to TCP's congestion control mechanism for use
504 with large congestion windows. A table indicates how much to
505 increase the congestion window by when an ACK is received.
506 For more detail see http://www.icir.org/floyd/hstcp.html
508 config TCP_CONG_HYBLA
509 tristate "TCP-Hybla congestion control algorithm"
510 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
513 TCP-Hybla is a sender-side only change that eliminates penalization of
514 long-RTT, large-bandwidth connections, like when satellite legs are
515 involved, especially when sharing a common bottleneck with normal
516 terrestrial connections.
518 config TCP_CONG_VEGAS
520 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
523 TCP Vegas is a sender-side only change to TCP that anticipates
524 the onset of congestion by estimating the bandwidth. TCP Vegas
525 adjusts the sending rate by modifying the congestion
526 window. TCP Vegas should provide less packet loss, but it is
527 not as aggressive as TCP Reno.
529 config TCP_CONG_SCALABLE
530 tristate "Scalable TCP"
531 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
534 Scalable TCP is a sender-side only change to TCP which uses a
535 MIMD congestion control algorithm which has some nice scaling
536 properties, though is known to have fairness issues.
537 See http://www.deneholme.net/tom/scalable/
540 tristate "TCP Low Priority"
541 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
544 TCP Low Priority (TCP-LP), a distributed algorithm whose goal is
545 to utilize only the excess network bandwidth as compared to the
546 ``fair share`` of bandwidth as targeted by TCP.
547 See http://www-ece.rice.edu/networks/TCP-LP/
551 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
554 TCP Veno is a sender-side only enhancement of TCP to obtain better
555 throughput over wireless networks. TCP Veno makes use of state
556 distinguishing to circumvent the difficult judgment of the packet loss
557 type. TCP Veno cuts down less congestion window in response to random
559 See http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home5/ZHOU0022/papers/CPFu03a.pdf
563 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
564 select TCP_CONG_VEGAS
567 YeAH-TCP is a sender-side high-speed enabled TCP congestion control
568 algorithm, which uses a mixed loss/delay approach to compute the
569 congestion window. It's design goals target high efficiency,
570 internal, RTT and Reno fairness, resilience to link loss while
571 keeping network elements load as low as possible.
573 For further details look here:
574 http://wil.cs.caltech.edu/pfldnet2007/paper/YeAH_TCP.pdf
576 config TCP_CONG_ILLINOIS
577 tristate "TCP Illinois"
578 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
581 TCP-Illinois is a sender-side modification of TCP Reno for
582 high speed long delay links. It uses round-trip-time to
583 adjust the alpha and beta parameters to achieve a higher average
584 throughput and maintain fairness.
586 For further details see:
587 http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~shaoliu/tcpillinois/index.html
590 prompt "Default TCP congestion control"
591 default DEFAULT_CUBIC
593 Select the TCP congestion control that will be used by default
597 bool "Bic" if TCP_CONG_BIC=y
600 bool "Cubic" if TCP_CONG_CUBIC=y
603 bool "Htcp" if TCP_CONG_HTCP=y
606 bool "Hybla" if TCP_CONG_HYBLA=y
609 bool "Vegas" if TCP_CONG_VEGAS=y
612 bool "Veno" if TCP_CONG_VENO=y
614 config DEFAULT_WESTWOOD
615 bool "Westwood" if TCP_CONG_WESTWOOD=y
624 config TCP_CONG_CUBIC
626 depends on !TCP_CONG_ADVANCED
629 config DEFAULT_TCP_CONG
631 default "bic" if DEFAULT_BIC
632 default "cubic" if DEFAULT_CUBIC
633 default "htcp" if DEFAULT_HTCP
634 default "hybla" if DEFAULT_HYBLA
635 default "vegas" if DEFAULT_VEGAS
636 default "westwood" if DEFAULT_WESTWOOD
637 default "veno" if DEFAULT_VENO
638 default "reno" if DEFAULT_RENO
642 bool "TCP: MD5 Signature Option support (RFC2385) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
643 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
647 RFC2385 specifies a method of giving MD5 protection to TCP sessions.
648 Its main (only?) use is to protect BGP sessions between core routers