net: netlink: virtual tap device management
[linux-2.6-block.git] / drivers / net / Kconfig
CommitLineData
1da177e4
LT
1#
2# Network device configuration
3#
4
d1c0a65f 5menuconfig NETDEVICES
ce2d2aed 6 default y if UML
e0009820 7 depends on NET
1da177e4
LT
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
1618cb0c
RD
24# All the following symbols are dependent on NETDEVICES - do not repeat
25# that for each of the symbols.
26if NETDEVICES
cbcd2a4c 27
a1606c7d
BH
28config MII
29 tristate
30
88491d81
JK
31config NET_CORE
32 default y
33 bool "Network core driver support"
253af423 34 ---help---
88491d81
JK
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
1da177e4
LT
58config DUMMY
59 tristate "Dummy net driver support"
1da177e4
LT
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.
1da177e4 73
88491d81
JK
74config EQUALIZER
75 tristate "EQL (serial line load balancing) support"
1da177e4 76 ---help---
88491d81
JK
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.
1da177e4 84
88491d81
JK
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>.
1da177e4 89
88491d81
JK
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".
1da177e4 105
88491d81
JK
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
88491d81
JK
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
1da177e4 118
3d249d4c
JP
119source "drivers/net/team/Kconfig"
120
b863ceb7 121config MACVLAN
bd085b93 122 tristate "MAC-VLAN support"
b863ceb7
PM
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
3dbf8d56
PM
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
b863ceb7
PM
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
AB
137 depends on MACVLAN
138 help
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 macvlan', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface.
143
144 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
145 will be called macvtap.
146
d342894c 147config VXLAN
148 tristate "Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN)"
c9b20a5e 149 depends on INET
e8171045 150 select NET_IP_TUNNEL
d342894c 151 ---help---
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
157
158 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
159 will be called vxlan.
160
88491d81
JK
161config NETCONSOLE
162 tristate "Network console logging support"
1da177e4 163 ---help---
88491d81
JK
164 If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this.
165 See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details.
1da177e4 166
88491d81
JK
167config NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC
168 bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets"
169 depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && CONFIGFS_FS && \
170 !(NETCONSOLE=y && CONFIGFS_FS=m)
171 help
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.
1da177e4 176
88491d81
JK
177config NETPOLL
178 def_bool NETCONSOLE
179
180config NETPOLL_TRAP
181 bool "Netpoll traffic trapping"
182 default n
183 depends on NETPOLL
184
185config NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
186 def_bool NETPOLL
187
548c237c
JM
188config NTB_NETDEV
189 tristate "Virtual Ethernet over NTB"
190 depends on NTB
191
88491d81
JK
192config RIONET
193 tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support"
194 depends on RAPIDIO
195
196config RIONET_TX_SIZE
197 int "Number of outbound queue entries"
198 depends on RIONET
199 default "128"
200
201config RIONET_RX_SIZE
202 int "Number of inbound queue entries"
203 depends on RIONET
204 default "128"
1da177e4
LT
205
206config TUN
207 tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support"
1da177e4
LT
208 select CRC32
209 ---help---
210 TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space
211 programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet
212 device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media,
213 receives them from user space program and instead of sending packets
214 via physical media writes them to the user space program.
215
216 When a program opens /dev/net/tun, driver creates and registers
217 corresponding net device tunX or tapX. After a program closed above
218 devices, driver will automatically delete tunXX or tapXX device and
219 all routes corresponding to it.
220
221 Please read <file:Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt> for more
222 information.
223
224 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
225 will be called tun.
226
227 If you don't know what to use this for, you don't need it.
228
e314dbdc 229config VETH
6a9a0250 230 tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device"
e314dbdc 231 ---help---
6a9a0250
RR
232 This device is a local ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs.
233 When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice
234 versa.
e314dbdc 235
88491d81 236config VIRTIO_NET
bd085b93
KC
237 tristate "Virtio network driver"
238 depends on VIRTIO
88491d81
JK
239 ---help---
240 This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with
241 lguest or QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M.
242
243endif # NET_CORE
244
245config SUNGEM_PHY
246 tristate
247
248source "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig"
249
250source "drivers/atm/Kconfig"
251
252source "drivers/net/caif/Kconfig"
253
3b158859
BH
254source "drivers/net/dsa/Kconfig"
255
88491d81
JK
256source "drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig"
257
258source "drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig"
259
fecc7351
PB
260source "drivers/net/hippi/Kconfig"
261
1da177e4
LT
262config NET_SB1000
263 tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000"
cbcd2a4c 264 depends on PNP
1da177e4
LT
265 ---help---
266 This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as
267 NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal
268 cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable
269 TV companies to provide cable modem access. It's a one-way
270 downstream-only cable modem, meaning that your upstream net link is
271 provided by your regular phone modem.
272
273 At present this driver only compiles as a module, so say M here if
274 you have this card. The module will be called sb1000. Then read
275 <file:Documentation/networking/README.sb1000> for information on how
276 to use this module, as it needs special ppp scripts for establishing
277 a connection. Further documentation and the necessary scripts can be
278 found at:
279
280 <http://www.jacksonville.net/~fventuri/>
281 <http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/sb1000.html>
282 <http://linuxpower.cx/~cable/>
283
284 If you don't have this card, of course say N.
285
00db8189
AF
286source "drivers/net/phy/Kconfig"
287
18e635f4
JK
288source "drivers/net/plip/Kconfig"
289
88491d81
JK
290source "drivers/net/ppp/Kconfig"
291
b5451d78
JK
292source "drivers/net/slip/Kconfig"
293
88491d81
JK
294source "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig"
295
88491d81
JK
296source "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig"
297
1da177e4
LT
298source "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig"
299
143ee2d5
IPG
300source "drivers/net/wimax/Kconfig"
301
1da177e4
LT
302source "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig"
303
0739d643 304source "drivers/net/ieee802154/Kconfig"
305
0d160211
JF
306config XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND
307 tristate "Xen network device frontend driver"
308 depends on XEN
7003087c 309 select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND
0d160211
JF
310 default y
311 help
f942dc25
IC
312 This driver provides support for Xen paravirtual network
313 devices exported by a Xen network driver domain (often
314 domain 0).
315
316 The corresponding Linux backend driver is enabled by the
317 CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND option.
318
319 If you are compiling a kernel for use as Xen guest, you
320 should say Y here. To compile this driver as a module, chose
321 M here: the module will be called xen-netfront.
322
323config XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND
324 tristate "Xen backend network device"
325 depends on XEN_BACKEND
326 help
327 This driver allows the kernel to act as a Xen network driver
328 domain which exports paravirtual network devices to other
329 Xen domains. These devices can be accessed by any operating
330 system that implements a compatible front end.
331
332 The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the
333 CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND configuration option.
334
335 The backend driver presents a standard network device
336 endpoint for each paravirtual network device to the driver
337 domain network stack. These can then be bridged or routed
338 etc in order to provide full network connectivity.
339
340 If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen network driver
341 domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To
342 compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module
343 will be called xen-netback.
0d160211 344
d1a890fa 345config VMXNET3
e85eb117
PDM
346 tristate "VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver"
347 depends on PCI && INET
348 help
349 This driver supports VMware's vmxnet3 virtual ethernet NIC.
350 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
351 module will be called vmxnet3.
d1a890fa 352
95fa0405
HZ
353source "drivers/net/hyperv/Kconfig"
354
d1c0a65f 355endif # NETDEVICES