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1#
2# Network device configuration
3#
4
d1c0a65f 5menuconfig NETDEVICES
ce2d2aed 6 default y if UML
e0009820 7 depends on NET
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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
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24# All the following symbols are dependent on NETDEVICES - do not repeat
25# that for each of the symbols.
26if NETDEVICES
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28config MII
29 tristate
30
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31config NET_CORE
32 default y
33 bool "Network core driver support"
253af423 34 ---help---
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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
38if NET_CORE
39
40config 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
253af423 55 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
88491d81 56 will be called bonding.
253af423 57
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58config DUMMY
59 tristate "Dummy net driver support"
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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
9f486619 72 will be called dummy.
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74config EQUALIZER
75 tristate "EQL (serial line load balancing) support"
1da177e4 76 ---help---
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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.
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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>.
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90 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
91 will be called eql. If unsure, say N.
92
93config 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".
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106config 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.
1da177e4 112 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
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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
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119source "drivers/net/team/Kconfig"
120
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bd085b93 122 tristate "MAC-VLAN support"
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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
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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
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132 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
133 will be called macvlan.
134
20d29d7a 135config MACVTAP
bd085b93 136 tristate "MAC-VLAN based tap driver"
20d29d7a 137 depends on MACVLAN
de11b0e8 138 depends on INET
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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
c7966b52 143 macvtap', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface.
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144
145 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
146 will be called macvtap.
147
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149config IPVLAN
150 tristate "IP-VLAN support"
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151 depends on INET
152 depends on IPV6
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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
f4c2b7a0 160 iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-3.19 release:
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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
d342894c 168config VXLAN
169 tristate "Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN)"
c9b20a5e 170 depends on INET
3ee64f39 171 select NET_UDP_TUNNEL
d342894c 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
2d07dc79 182config GENEVE
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183 tristate "Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation"
184 depends on INET && NET_UDP_TUNNEL
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185 select NET_IP_TUNNEL
186 ---help---
187 This allows one to create geneve virtual interfaces that provide
188 Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. GENEVE is often used
189 to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments.
190 For more information see:
191 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gross-geneve-02
192
193 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
194 will be called geneve.
195
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196config MACSEC
197 tristate "IEEE 802.1AE MAC-level encryption (MACsec)"
198 select CRYPTO_AES
199 select CRYPTO_GCM
200 ---help---
201 MACsec is an encryption standard for Ethernet.
202
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203config NETCONSOLE
204 tristate "Network console logging support"
1da177e4 205 ---help---
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206 If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this.
207 See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details.
1da177e4 208
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209config NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC
210 bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets"
211 depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && CONFIGFS_FS && \
212 !(NETCONSOLE=y && CONFIGFS_FS=m)
213 help
214 This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target
215 parameters (interface, IP addresses, port numbers, MAC addresses)
216 at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs.
217 See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details.
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219config NETPOLL
220 def_bool NETCONSOLE
83fe27ea 221 select SRCU
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223config NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
224 def_bool NETPOLL
225
548c237c 226config NTB_NETDEV
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227 tristate "Virtual Ethernet over NTB Transport"
228 depends on NTB_TRANSPORT
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230config RIONET
231 tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support"
232 depends on RAPIDIO
233
234config RIONET_TX_SIZE
235 int "Number of outbound queue entries"
236 depends on RIONET
237 default "128"
238
239config RIONET_RX_SIZE
240 int "Number of inbound queue entries"
241 depends on RIONET
242 default "128"
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244config TUN
245 tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support"
de11b0e8 246 depends on INET
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247 select CRC32
248 ---help---
249 TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space
250 programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet
251 device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media,
252 receives them from user space program and instead of sending packets
253 via physical media writes them to the user space program.
254
255 When a program opens /dev/net/tun, driver creates and registers
256 corresponding net device tunX or tapX. After a program closed above
257 devices, driver will automatically delete tunXX or tapXX device and
258 all routes corresponding to it.
259
260 Please read <file:Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt> for more
261 information.
262
263 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
264 will be called tun.
265
266 If you don't know what to use this for, you don't need it.
267
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268config TUN_VNET_CROSS_LE
269 bool "Support for cross-endian vnet headers on little-endian kernels"
270 default n
271 ---help---
272 This option allows TUN/TAP and MACVTAP device drivers in a
273 little-endian kernel to parse vnet headers that come from a
274 big-endian legacy virtio device.
275
276 Userspace programs can control the feature using the TUNSETVNETBE
277 and TUNGETVNETBE ioctls.
278
279 Unless you have a little-endian system hosting a big-endian virtual
280 machine with a legacy virtio NIC, you should say N.
281
e314dbdc 282config VETH
6a9a0250 283 tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device"
e314dbdc 284 ---help---
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285 This device is a local ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs.
286 When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice
287 versa.
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290 tristate "Virtio network driver"
291 depends on VIRTIO
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292 ---help---
293 This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with
294 lguest or QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M.
295
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296config NLMON
297 tristate "Virtual netlink monitoring device"
298 ---help---
299 This option enables a monitoring net device for netlink skbs. The
300 purpose of this is to analyze netlink messages with packet sockets.
301 Thus applications like tcpdump will be able to see local netlink
302 messages if they tap into the netlink device, record pcaps for further
303 diagnostics, etc. This is mostly intended for developers or support
304 to debug netlink issues. If unsure, say N.
305
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306config NET_VRF
307 tristate "Virtual Routing and Forwarding (Lite)"
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310 depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n
311 depends on IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES || IPV6=n
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312 ---help---
313 This option enables the support for mapping interfaces into VRF's. The
314 support enables VRF devices.
315
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316endif # NET_CORE
317
318config SUNGEM_PHY
319 tristate
320
321source "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig"
322
323source "drivers/atm/Kconfig"
324
325source "drivers/net/caif/Kconfig"
326
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327source "drivers/net/dsa/Kconfig"
328
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329source "drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig"
330
331source "drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig"
332
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333source "drivers/net/hippi/Kconfig"
334
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335config NET_SB1000
336 tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000"
cbcd2a4c 337 depends on PNP
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338 ---help---
339 This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as
340 NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal
341 cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable
342 TV companies to provide cable modem access. It's a one-way
343 downstream-only cable modem, meaning that your upstream net link is
344 provided by your regular phone modem.
345
346 At present this driver only compiles as a module, so say M here if
347 you have this card. The module will be called sb1000. Then read
348 <file:Documentation/networking/README.sb1000> for information on how
349 to use this module, as it needs special ppp scripts for establishing
350 a connection. Further documentation and the necessary scripts can be
351 found at:
352
353 <http://www.jacksonville.net/~fventuri/>
354 <http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/sb1000.html>
355 <http://linuxpower.cx/~cable/>
356
357 If you don't have this card, of course say N.
358
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359source "drivers/net/phy/Kconfig"
360
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361source "drivers/net/plip/Kconfig"
362
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363source "drivers/net/ppp/Kconfig"
364
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365source "drivers/net/slip/Kconfig"
366
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367source "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig"
368
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369source "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig"
370
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371source "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig"
372
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373source "drivers/net/wimax/Kconfig"
374
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375source "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig"
376
0739d643 377source "drivers/net/ieee802154/Kconfig"
378
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379config XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND
380 tristate "Xen network device frontend driver"
381 depends on XEN
7003087c 382 select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND
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383 default y
384 help
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385 This driver provides support for Xen paravirtual network
386 devices exported by a Xen network driver domain (often
387 domain 0).
388
389 The corresponding Linux backend driver is enabled by the
390 CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND option.
391
392 If you are compiling a kernel for use as Xen guest, you
393 should say Y here. To compile this driver as a module, chose
394 M here: the module will be called xen-netfront.
395
396config XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND
397 tristate "Xen backend network device"
398 depends on XEN_BACKEND
399 help
400 This driver allows the kernel to act as a Xen network driver
401 domain which exports paravirtual network devices to other
402 Xen domains. These devices can be accessed by any operating
403 system that implements a compatible front end.
404
405 The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the
406 CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND configuration option.
407
408 The backend driver presents a standard network device
409 endpoint for each paravirtual network device to the driver
410 domain network stack. These can then be bridged or routed
411 etc in order to provide full network connectivity.
412
413 If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen network driver
414 domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To
415 compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module
416 will be called xen-netback.
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d1a890fa 418config VMXNET3
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419 tristate "VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver"
420 depends on PCI && INET
421 help
422 This driver supports VMware's vmxnet3 virtual ethernet NIC.
423 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
424 module will be called vmxnet3.
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426config FUJITSU_ES
427 tristate "FUJITSU Extended Socket Network Device driver"
428 depends on ACPI
429 help
430 This driver provides support for Extended Socket network device
431 on Extended Partitioning of FUJITSU PRIMEQUEST 2000 E2 series.
432
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433source "drivers/net/hyperv/Kconfig"
434
d1c0a65f 435endif # NETDEVICES