1*4882a593Smuzhiyun# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2*4882a593Smuzhiyun# 3*4882a593Smuzhiyun# Network device configuration 4*4882a593Smuzhiyun# 5*4882a593Smuzhiyun 6*4882a593Smuzhiyunmenuconfig NETDEVICES 7*4882a593Smuzhiyun default y if UML 8*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on NET 9*4882a593Smuzhiyun bool "Network device support" 10*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 11*4882a593Smuzhiyun You can say N here if you don't intend to connect your Linux box to 12*4882a593Smuzhiyun any other computer at all. 13*4882a593Smuzhiyun 14*4882a593Smuzhiyun You'll have to say Y if your computer contains a network card that 15*4882a593Smuzhiyun you want to use under Linux. If you are going to run SLIP or PPP over 16*4882a593Smuzhiyun telephone line or null modem cable you need say Y here. Connecting 17*4882a593Smuzhiyun two machines with parallel ports using PLIP needs this, as well as 18*4882a593Smuzhiyun AX.25/KISS for sending Internet traffic over amateur radio links. 19*4882a593Smuzhiyun 20*4882a593Smuzhiyun See also "The Linux Network Administrator's Guide" by Olaf Kirch and 21*4882a593Smuzhiyun Terry Dawson. Available at <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 22*4882a593Smuzhiyun 23*4882a593Smuzhiyun If unsure, say Y. 24*4882a593Smuzhiyun 25*4882a593Smuzhiyun# All the following symbols are dependent on NETDEVICES - do not repeat 26*4882a593Smuzhiyun# that for each of the symbols. 27*4882a593Smuzhiyunif NETDEVICES 28*4882a593Smuzhiyun 29*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig MII 30*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate 31*4882a593Smuzhiyun 32*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig NET_CORE 33*4882a593Smuzhiyun default y 34*4882a593Smuzhiyun bool "Network core driver support" 35*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 36*4882a593Smuzhiyun You can say N here if you do not intend to use any of the 37*4882a593Smuzhiyun networking core drivers (i.e. VLAN, bridging, bonding, etc.) 38*4882a593Smuzhiyun 39*4882a593Smuzhiyunif NET_CORE 40*4882a593Smuzhiyun 41*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig BONDING 42*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "Bonding driver support" 43*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on INET 44*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n 45*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 46*4882a593Smuzhiyun Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet 47*4882a593Smuzhiyun Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco, 48*4882a593Smuzhiyun 'Trunking' by Sun, 802.3ad by the IEEE, and 'Bonding' in Linux. 49*4882a593Smuzhiyun 50*4882a593Smuzhiyun The driver supports multiple bonding modes to allow for both high 51*4882a593Smuzhiyun performance and high availability operation. 52*4882a593Smuzhiyun 53*4882a593Smuzhiyun Refer to <file:Documentation/networking/bonding.rst> for more 54*4882a593Smuzhiyun information. 55*4882a593Smuzhiyun 56*4882a593Smuzhiyun To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 57*4882a593Smuzhiyun will be called bonding. 58*4882a593Smuzhiyun 59*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig DUMMY 60*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "Dummy net driver support" 61*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 62*4882a593Smuzhiyun This is essentially a bit-bucket device (i.e. traffic you send to 63*4882a593Smuzhiyun this device is consigned into oblivion) with a configurable IP 64*4882a593Smuzhiyun address. It is most commonly used in order to make your currently 65*4882a593Smuzhiyun inactive SLIP address seem like a real address for local programs. 66*4882a593Smuzhiyun If you use SLIP or PPP, you might want to say Y here. It won't 67*4882a593Smuzhiyun enlarge your kernel. What a deal. Read about it in the Network 68*4882a593Smuzhiyun Administrator's Guide, available from 69*4882a593Smuzhiyun <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>. 70*4882a593Smuzhiyun 71*4882a593Smuzhiyun To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 72*4882a593Smuzhiyun will be called dummy. 73*4882a593Smuzhiyun 74*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig WIREGUARD 75*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "WireGuard secure network tunnel" 76*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on NET && INET 77*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 78*4882a593Smuzhiyun select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 79*4882a593Smuzhiyun select DST_CACHE 80*4882a593Smuzhiyun select CRYPTO 81*4882a593Smuzhiyun select CRYPTO_LIB_CURVE25519 82*4882a593Smuzhiyun select CRYPTO_LIB_CHACHA20POLY1305 83*4882a593Smuzhiyun select CRYPTO_CHACHA20_X86_64 if X86 && 64BIT 84*4882a593Smuzhiyun select CRYPTO_POLY1305_X86_64 if X86 && 64BIT 85*4882a593Smuzhiyun select CRYPTO_BLAKE2S_X86 if X86 && 64BIT 86*4882a593Smuzhiyun select CRYPTO_CURVE25519_X86 if X86 && 64BIT 87*4882a593Smuzhiyun select ARM_CRYPTO if ARM 88*4882a593Smuzhiyun select ARM64_CRYPTO if ARM64 89*4882a593Smuzhiyun select CRYPTO_CHACHA20_NEON if ARM || (ARM64 && KERNEL_MODE_NEON) 90*4882a593Smuzhiyun select CRYPTO_POLY1305_NEON if ARM64 && KERNEL_MODE_NEON 91*4882a593Smuzhiyun select CRYPTO_POLY1305_ARM if ARM 92*4882a593Smuzhiyun select CRYPTO_BLAKE2S_ARM if ARM 93*4882a593Smuzhiyun select CRYPTO_CURVE25519_NEON if ARM && KERNEL_MODE_NEON 94*4882a593Smuzhiyun select CRYPTO_CHACHA_MIPS if CPU_MIPS32_R2 95*4882a593Smuzhiyun select CRYPTO_POLY1305_MIPS if MIPS 96*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 97*4882a593Smuzhiyun WireGuard is a secure, fast, and easy to use replacement for IPSec 98*4882a593Smuzhiyun that uses modern cryptography and clever networking tricks. It's 99*4882a593Smuzhiyun designed to be fairly general purpose and abstract enough to fit most 100*4882a593Smuzhiyun use cases, while at the same time remaining extremely simple to 101*4882a593Smuzhiyun configure. See www.wireguard.com for more info. 102*4882a593Smuzhiyun 103*4882a593Smuzhiyun It's safe to say Y or M here, as the driver is very lightweight and 104*4882a593Smuzhiyun is only in use when an administrator chooses to add an interface. 105*4882a593Smuzhiyun 106*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig WIREGUARD_DEBUG 107*4882a593Smuzhiyun bool "Debugging checks and verbose messages" 108*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on WIREGUARD 109*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 110*4882a593Smuzhiyun This will write log messages for handshake and other events 111*4882a593Smuzhiyun that occur for a WireGuard interface. It will also perform some 112*4882a593Smuzhiyun extra validation checks and unit tests at various points. This is 113*4882a593Smuzhiyun only useful for debugging. 114*4882a593Smuzhiyun 115*4882a593Smuzhiyun Say N here unless you know what you're doing. 116*4882a593Smuzhiyun 117*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig EQUALIZER 118*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "EQL (serial line load balancing) support" 119*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 120*4882a593Smuzhiyun If you have two serial connections to some other computer (this 121*4882a593Smuzhiyun usually requires two modems and two telephone lines) and you use 122*4882a593Smuzhiyun SLIP (the protocol for sending Internet traffic over telephone 123*4882a593Smuzhiyun lines) or PPP (a better SLIP) on them, you can make them behave like 124*4882a593Smuzhiyun one double speed connection using this driver. Naturally, this has 125*4882a593Smuzhiyun to be supported at the other end as well, either with a similar EQL 126*4882a593Smuzhiyun Linux driver or with a Livingston Portmaster 2e. 127*4882a593Smuzhiyun 128*4882a593Smuzhiyun Say Y if you want this and read 129*4882a593Smuzhiyun <file:Documentation/networking/eql.rst>. You may also want to read 130*4882a593Smuzhiyun section 6.2 of the NET-3-HOWTO, available from 131*4882a593Smuzhiyun <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 132*4882a593Smuzhiyun 133*4882a593Smuzhiyun To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 134*4882a593Smuzhiyun will be called eql. If unsure, say N. 135*4882a593Smuzhiyun 136*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig NET_FC 137*4882a593Smuzhiyun bool "Fibre Channel driver support" 138*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on SCSI && PCI 139*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 140*4882a593Smuzhiyun Fibre Channel is a high speed serial protocol mainly used to connect 141*4882a593Smuzhiyun large storage devices to the computer; it is compatible with and 142*4882a593Smuzhiyun intended to replace SCSI. 143*4882a593Smuzhiyun 144*4882a593Smuzhiyun If you intend to use Fibre Channel, you need to have a Fibre channel 145*4882a593Smuzhiyun adaptor card in your computer; say Y here and to the driver for your 146*4882a593Smuzhiyun adaptor below. You also should have said Y to "SCSI support" and 147*4882a593Smuzhiyun "SCSI generic support". 148*4882a593Smuzhiyun 149*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig IFB 150*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "Intermediate Functional Block support" 151*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on NET_ACT_MIRRED || NFT_FWD_NETDEV 152*4882a593Smuzhiyun select NET_REDIRECT 153*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 154*4882a593Smuzhiyun This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of 155*4882a593Smuzhiyun resources. 156*4882a593Smuzhiyun To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 157*4882a593Smuzhiyun will be called ifb. If you want to use more than one ifb 158*4882a593Smuzhiyun device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module. 159*4882a593Smuzhiyun Instead of 'ifb', the devices will then be called 'ifb0', 160*4882a593Smuzhiyun 'ifb1' etc. 161*4882a593Smuzhiyun Look at the iproute2 documentation directory for usage etc 162*4882a593Smuzhiyun 163*4882a593Smuzhiyunsource "drivers/net/team/Kconfig" 164*4882a593Smuzhiyun 165*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig MACVLAN 166*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "MAC-VLAN support" 167*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 168*4882a593Smuzhiyun This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to 169*4882a593Smuzhiyun or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface. 170*4882a593Smuzhiyun 171*4882a593Smuzhiyun Macvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the 172*4882a593Smuzhiyun iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-2.6.23 release: 173*4882a593Smuzhiyun 174*4882a593Smuzhiyun "ip link add link <real dev> [ address MAC ] [ NAME ] type macvlan" 175*4882a593Smuzhiyun 176*4882a593Smuzhiyun To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 177*4882a593Smuzhiyun will be called macvlan. 178*4882a593Smuzhiyun 179*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig MACVTAP 180*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "MAC-VLAN based tap driver" 181*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on MACVLAN 182*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on INET 183*4882a593Smuzhiyun select TAP 184*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 185*4882a593Smuzhiyun This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based 186*4882a593Smuzhiyun on the MAC-VLAN network interface, called macvtap. A macvtap device 187*4882a593Smuzhiyun can be added in the same way as a macvlan device, using 'type 188*4882a593Smuzhiyun macvtap', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface. 189*4882a593Smuzhiyun 190*4882a593Smuzhiyun To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 191*4882a593Smuzhiyun will be called macvtap. 192*4882a593Smuzhiyun 193*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig IPVLAN_L3S 194*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on NETFILTER 195*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on IPVLAN 196*4882a593Smuzhiyun def_bool y 197*4882a593Smuzhiyun select NET_L3_MASTER_DEV 198*4882a593Smuzhiyun 199*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig IPVLAN 200*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "IP-VLAN support" 201*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on INET 202*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 203*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 204*4882a593Smuzhiyun This allows one to create virtual devices off of a main interface 205*4882a593Smuzhiyun and packets will be delivered based on the dest L3 (IPv6/IPv4 addr) 206*4882a593Smuzhiyun on packets. All interfaces (including the main interface) share L2 207*4882a593Smuzhiyun making it transparent to the connected L2 switch. 208*4882a593Smuzhiyun 209*4882a593Smuzhiyun Ipvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the 210*4882a593Smuzhiyun iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-3.19 release: 211*4882a593Smuzhiyun 212*4882a593Smuzhiyun "ip link add link <main-dev> [ NAME ] type ipvlan" 213*4882a593Smuzhiyun 214*4882a593Smuzhiyun To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 215*4882a593Smuzhiyun will be called ipvlan. 216*4882a593Smuzhiyun 217*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig IPVTAP 218*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "IP-VLAN based tap driver" 219*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on IPVLAN 220*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on INET 221*4882a593Smuzhiyun select TAP 222*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 223*4882a593Smuzhiyun This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based 224*4882a593Smuzhiyun on the IP-VLAN network interface, called ipvtap. An ipvtap device 225*4882a593Smuzhiyun can be added in the same way as a ipvlan device, using 'type 226*4882a593Smuzhiyun ipvtap', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface. 227*4882a593Smuzhiyun 228*4882a593Smuzhiyun To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 229*4882a593Smuzhiyun will be called ipvtap. 230*4882a593Smuzhiyun 231*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig VXLAN 232*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN)" 233*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on INET 234*4882a593Smuzhiyun select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 235*4882a593Smuzhiyun select GRO_CELLS 236*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 237*4882a593Smuzhiyun This allows one to create vxlan virtual interfaces that provide 238*4882a593Smuzhiyun Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. VXLAN is often used 239*4882a593Smuzhiyun to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments. 240*4882a593Smuzhiyun For more information see: 241*4882a593Smuzhiyun http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-02 242*4882a593Smuzhiyun 243*4882a593Smuzhiyun To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 244*4882a593Smuzhiyun will be called vxlan. 245*4882a593Smuzhiyun 246*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig GENEVE 247*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation" 248*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on INET 249*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 250*4882a593Smuzhiyun select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 251*4882a593Smuzhiyun select GRO_CELLS 252*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 253*4882a593Smuzhiyun This allows one to create geneve virtual interfaces that provide 254*4882a593Smuzhiyun Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. GENEVE is often used 255*4882a593Smuzhiyun to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments. 256*4882a593Smuzhiyun For more information see: 257*4882a593Smuzhiyun http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gross-geneve-02 258*4882a593Smuzhiyun 259*4882a593Smuzhiyun To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 260*4882a593Smuzhiyun will be called geneve. 261*4882a593Smuzhiyun 262*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig BAREUDP 263*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "Bare UDP Encapsulation" 264*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on INET 265*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 266*4882a593Smuzhiyun select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 267*4882a593Smuzhiyun select GRO_CELLS 268*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 269*4882a593Smuzhiyun This adds a bare UDP tunnel module for tunnelling different 270*4882a593Smuzhiyun kinds of traffic like MPLS, IP, etc. inside a UDP tunnel. 271*4882a593Smuzhiyun 272*4882a593Smuzhiyun To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 273*4882a593Smuzhiyun will be called bareudp. 274*4882a593Smuzhiyun 275*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig GTP 276*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U)" 277*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on INET 278*4882a593Smuzhiyun select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 279*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 280*4882a593Smuzhiyun This allows one to create gtp virtual interfaces that provide 281*4882a593Smuzhiyun the GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U). This tunneling protocol 282*4882a593Smuzhiyun is used to prevent subscribers from accessing mobile carrier core 283*4882a593Smuzhiyun network infrastructure. This driver requires a userspace software that 284*4882a593Smuzhiyun implements the signaling protocol (GTP-C) to update its PDP context 285*4882a593Smuzhiyun base, such as OpenGGSN <http://git.osmocom.org/openggsn/). This 286*4882a593Smuzhiyun tunneling protocol is implemented according to the GSM TS 09.60 and 287*4882a593Smuzhiyun 3GPP TS 29.060 standards. 288*4882a593Smuzhiyun 289*4882a593Smuzhiyun To compile this drivers as a module, choose M here: the module 290*4882a593Smuzhiyun wil be called gtp. 291*4882a593Smuzhiyun 292*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig MACSEC 293*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "IEEE 802.1AE MAC-level encryption (MACsec)" 294*4882a593Smuzhiyun select CRYPTO 295*4882a593Smuzhiyun select CRYPTO_AES 296*4882a593Smuzhiyun select CRYPTO_GCM 297*4882a593Smuzhiyun select GRO_CELLS 298*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 299*4882a593Smuzhiyun MACsec is an encryption standard for Ethernet. 300*4882a593Smuzhiyun 301*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig NETCONSOLE 302*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "Network console logging support" 303*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 304*4882a593Smuzhiyun If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this. 305*4882a593Smuzhiyun See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst> for details. 306*4882a593Smuzhiyun 307*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC 308*4882a593Smuzhiyun bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets" 309*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && CONFIGFS_FS && \ 310*4882a593Smuzhiyun !(NETCONSOLE=y && CONFIGFS_FS=m) 311*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 312*4882a593Smuzhiyun This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target 313*4882a593Smuzhiyun parameters (interface, IP addresses, port numbers, MAC addresses) 314*4882a593Smuzhiyun at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs. 315*4882a593Smuzhiyun See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst> for details. 316*4882a593Smuzhiyun 317*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig NETPOLL 318*4882a593Smuzhiyun def_bool NETCONSOLE 319*4882a593Smuzhiyun select SRCU 320*4882a593Smuzhiyun 321*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig NET_POLL_CONTROLLER 322*4882a593Smuzhiyun def_bool NETPOLL 323*4882a593Smuzhiyun 324*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig NTB_NETDEV 325*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "Virtual Ethernet over NTB Transport" 326*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on NTB_TRANSPORT 327*4882a593Smuzhiyun 328*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig RIONET 329*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support" 330*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on RAPIDIO 331*4882a593Smuzhiyun 332*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig RIONET_TX_SIZE 333*4882a593Smuzhiyun int "Number of outbound queue entries" 334*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on RIONET 335*4882a593Smuzhiyun default "128" 336*4882a593Smuzhiyun 337*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig RIONET_RX_SIZE 338*4882a593Smuzhiyun int "Number of inbound queue entries" 339*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on RIONET 340*4882a593Smuzhiyun default "128" 341*4882a593Smuzhiyun 342*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig TUN 343*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support" 344*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on INET 345*4882a593Smuzhiyun select CRC32 346*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 347*4882a593Smuzhiyun TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space 348*4882a593Smuzhiyun programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet 349*4882a593Smuzhiyun device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media, 350*4882a593Smuzhiyun receives them from user space program and instead of sending packets 351*4882a593Smuzhiyun via physical media writes them to the user space program. 352*4882a593Smuzhiyun 353*4882a593Smuzhiyun When a program opens /dev/net/tun, driver creates and registers 354*4882a593Smuzhiyun corresponding net device tunX or tapX. After a program closed above 355*4882a593Smuzhiyun devices, driver will automatically delete tunXX or tapXX device and 356*4882a593Smuzhiyun all routes corresponding to it. 357*4882a593Smuzhiyun 358*4882a593Smuzhiyun Please read <file:Documentation/networking/tuntap.rst> for more 359*4882a593Smuzhiyun information. 360*4882a593Smuzhiyun 361*4882a593Smuzhiyun To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 362*4882a593Smuzhiyun will be called tun. 363*4882a593Smuzhiyun 364*4882a593Smuzhiyun If you don't know what to use this for, you don't need it. 365*4882a593Smuzhiyun 366*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig TAP 367*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate 368*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 369*4882a593Smuzhiyun This option is selected by any driver implementing tap user space 370*4882a593Smuzhiyun interface for a virtual interface to re-use core tap functionality. 371*4882a593Smuzhiyun 372*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig TUN_VNET_CROSS_LE 373*4882a593Smuzhiyun bool "Support for cross-endian vnet headers on little-endian kernels" 374*4882a593Smuzhiyun default n 375*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 376*4882a593Smuzhiyun This option allows TUN/TAP and MACVTAP device drivers in a 377*4882a593Smuzhiyun little-endian kernel to parse vnet headers that come from a 378*4882a593Smuzhiyun big-endian legacy virtio device. 379*4882a593Smuzhiyun 380*4882a593Smuzhiyun Userspace programs can control the feature using the TUNSETVNETBE 381*4882a593Smuzhiyun and TUNGETVNETBE ioctls. 382*4882a593Smuzhiyun 383*4882a593Smuzhiyun Unless you have a little-endian system hosting a big-endian virtual 384*4882a593Smuzhiyun machine with a legacy virtio NIC, you should say N. 385*4882a593Smuzhiyun 386*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig VETH 387*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device" 388*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 389*4882a593Smuzhiyun This device is a local ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs. 390*4882a593Smuzhiyun When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice 391*4882a593Smuzhiyun versa. 392*4882a593Smuzhiyun 393*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig VIRTIO_NET 394*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "Virtio network driver" 395*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on VIRTIO 396*4882a593Smuzhiyun select NET_FAILOVER 397*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 398*4882a593Smuzhiyun This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with 399*4882a593Smuzhiyun QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M. 400*4882a593Smuzhiyun 401*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig NLMON 402*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "Virtual netlink monitoring device" 403*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 404*4882a593Smuzhiyun This option enables a monitoring net device for netlink skbs. The 405*4882a593Smuzhiyun purpose of this is to analyze netlink messages with packet sockets. 406*4882a593Smuzhiyun Thus applications like tcpdump will be able to see local netlink 407*4882a593Smuzhiyun messages if they tap into the netlink device, record pcaps for further 408*4882a593Smuzhiyun diagnostics, etc. This is mostly intended for developers or support 409*4882a593Smuzhiyun to debug netlink issues. If unsure, say N. 410*4882a593Smuzhiyun 411*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig NET_VRF 412*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "Virtual Routing and Forwarding (Lite)" 413*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES 414*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on NET_L3_MASTER_DEV 415*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n 416*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES || IPV6=n 417*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 418*4882a593Smuzhiyun This option enables the support for mapping interfaces into VRF's. The 419*4882a593Smuzhiyun support enables VRF devices. 420*4882a593Smuzhiyun 421*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig VSOCKMON 422*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "Virtual vsock monitoring device" 423*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on VHOST_VSOCK 424*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 425*4882a593Smuzhiyun This option enables a monitoring net device for vsock sockets. It is 426*4882a593Smuzhiyun mostly intended for developers or support to debug vsock issues. If 427*4882a593Smuzhiyun unsure, say N. 428*4882a593Smuzhiyun 429*4882a593Smuzhiyunendif # NET_CORE 430*4882a593Smuzhiyun 431*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig SUNGEM_PHY 432*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate 433*4882a593Smuzhiyun 434*4882a593Smuzhiyunsource "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig" 435*4882a593Smuzhiyun 436*4882a593Smuzhiyunsource "drivers/atm/Kconfig" 437*4882a593Smuzhiyun 438*4882a593Smuzhiyunsource "drivers/net/caif/Kconfig" 439*4882a593Smuzhiyun 440*4882a593Smuzhiyunsource "drivers/net/dsa/Kconfig" 441*4882a593Smuzhiyun 442*4882a593Smuzhiyunsource "drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig" 443*4882a593Smuzhiyun 444*4882a593Smuzhiyunsource "drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig" 445*4882a593Smuzhiyun 446*4882a593Smuzhiyunsource "drivers/net/hippi/Kconfig" 447*4882a593Smuzhiyun 448*4882a593Smuzhiyunsource "drivers/net/ipa/Kconfig" 449*4882a593Smuzhiyun 450*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig NET_SB1000 451*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000" 452*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on PNP 453*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 454*4882a593Smuzhiyun This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as 455*4882a593Smuzhiyun NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal 456*4882a593Smuzhiyun cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable 457*4882a593Smuzhiyun TV companies to provide cable modem access. It's a one-way 458*4882a593Smuzhiyun downstream-only cable modem, meaning that your upstream net link is 459*4882a593Smuzhiyun provided by your regular phone modem. 460*4882a593Smuzhiyun 461*4882a593Smuzhiyun At present this driver only compiles as a module, so say M here if 462*4882a593Smuzhiyun you have this card. The module will be called sb1000. Then read 463*4882a593Smuzhiyun <file:Documentation/networking/device_drivers/cable/sb1000.rst> for 464*4882a593Smuzhiyun information on how to use this module, as it needs special ppp 465*4882a593Smuzhiyun scripts for establishing a connection. Further documentation 466*4882a593Smuzhiyun and the necessary scripts can be found at: 467*4882a593Smuzhiyun 468*4882a593Smuzhiyun <http://www.jacksonville.net/~fventuri/> 469*4882a593Smuzhiyun <http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/sb1000.html> 470*4882a593Smuzhiyun <http://linuxpower.cx/~cable/> 471*4882a593Smuzhiyun 472*4882a593Smuzhiyun If you don't have this card, of course say N. 473*4882a593Smuzhiyun 474*4882a593Smuzhiyunsource "drivers/net/phy/Kconfig" 475*4882a593Smuzhiyun 476*4882a593Smuzhiyunsource "drivers/net/mdio/Kconfig" 477*4882a593Smuzhiyun 478*4882a593Smuzhiyunsource "drivers/net/pcs/Kconfig" 479*4882a593Smuzhiyun 480*4882a593Smuzhiyunsource "drivers/net/plip/Kconfig" 481*4882a593Smuzhiyun 482*4882a593Smuzhiyunsource "drivers/net/ppp/Kconfig" 483*4882a593Smuzhiyun 484*4882a593Smuzhiyunsource "drivers/net/slip/Kconfig" 485*4882a593Smuzhiyun 486*4882a593Smuzhiyunsource "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig" 487*4882a593Smuzhiyun 488*4882a593Smuzhiyunsource "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig" 489*4882a593Smuzhiyun 490*4882a593Smuzhiyunsource "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig" 491*4882a593Smuzhiyun 492*4882a593Smuzhiyunsource "drivers/net/wimax/Kconfig" 493*4882a593Smuzhiyun 494*4882a593Smuzhiyunsource "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig" 495*4882a593Smuzhiyun 496*4882a593Smuzhiyunsource "drivers/net/ieee802154/Kconfig" 497*4882a593Smuzhiyun 498*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND 499*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "Xen network device frontend driver" 500*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on XEN 501*4882a593Smuzhiyun select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND 502*4882a593Smuzhiyun select PAGE_POOL 503*4882a593Smuzhiyun default y 504*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 505*4882a593Smuzhiyun This driver provides support for Xen paravirtual network 506*4882a593Smuzhiyun devices exported by a Xen network driver domain (often 507*4882a593Smuzhiyun domain 0). 508*4882a593Smuzhiyun 509*4882a593Smuzhiyun The corresponding Linux backend driver is enabled by the 510*4882a593Smuzhiyun CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND option. 511*4882a593Smuzhiyun 512*4882a593Smuzhiyun If you are compiling a kernel for use as Xen guest, you 513*4882a593Smuzhiyun should say Y here. To compile this driver as a module, chose 514*4882a593Smuzhiyun M here: the module will be called xen-netfront. 515*4882a593Smuzhiyun 516*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND 517*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "Xen backend network device" 518*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on XEN_BACKEND 519*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 520*4882a593Smuzhiyun This driver allows the kernel to act as a Xen network driver 521*4882a593Smuzhiyun domain which exports paravirtual network devices to other 522*4882a593Smuzhiyun Xen domains. These devices can be accessed by any operating 523*4882a593Smuzhiyun system that implements a compatible front end. 524*4882a593Smuzhiyun 525*4882a593Smuzhiyun The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the 526*4882a593Smuzhiyun CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND configuration option. 527*4882a593Smuzhiyun 528*4882a593Smuzhiyun The backend driver presents a standard network device 529*4882a593Smuzhiyun endpoint for each paravirtual network device to the driver 530*4882a593Smuzhiyun domain network stack. These can then be bridged or routed 531*4882a593Smuzhiyun etc in order to provide full network connectivity. 532*4882a593Smuzhiyun 533*4882a593Smuzhiyun If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen network driver 534*4882a593Smuzhiyun domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To 535*4882a593Smuzhiyun compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module 536*4882a593Smuzhiyun will be called xen-netback. 537*4882a593Smuzhiyun 538*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig VMXNET3 539*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver" 540*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on PCI && INET 541*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on !(PAGE_SIZE_64KB || ARM64_64K_PAGES || \ 542*4882a593Smuzhiyun IA64_PAGE_SIZE_64KB || MICROBLAZE_64K_PAGES || \ 543*4882a593Smuzhiyun PARISC_PAGE_SIZE_64KB || PPC_64K_PAGES) 544*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 545*4882a593Smuzhiyun This driver supports VMware's vmxnet3 virtual ethernet NIC. 546*4882a593Smuzhiyun To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 547*4882a593Smuzhiyun module will be called vmxnet3. 548*4882a593Smuzhiyun 549*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig FUJITSU_ES 550*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "FUJITSU Extended Socket Network Device driver" 551*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on ACPI 552*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 553*4882a593Smuzhiyun This driver provides support for Extended Socket network device 554*4882a593Smuzhiyun on Extended Partitioning of FUJITSU PRIMEQUEST 2000 E2 series. 555*4882a593Smuzhiyun 556*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig USB4_NET 557*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "Networking over USB4 and Thunderbolt cables" 558*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on USB4 && INET 559*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 560*4882a593Smuzhiyun Select this if you want to create network between two computers 561*4882a593Smuzhiyun over a USB4 and Thunderbolt cables. The driver supports Apple 562*4882a593Smuzhiyun ThunderboltIP protocol and allows communication with any host 563*4882a593Smuzhiyun supporting the same protocol including Windows and macOS. 564*4882a593Smuzhiyun 565*4882a593Smuzhiyun To compile this driver a module, choose M here. The module will be 566*4882a593Smuzhiyun called thunderbolt-net. 567*4882a593Smuzhiyun 568*4882a593Smuzhiyunsource "drivers/net/hyperv/Kconfig" 569*4882a593Smuzhiyun 570*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig NETDEVSIM 571*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "Simulated networking device" 572*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on DEBUG_FS 573*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on INET 574*4882a593Smuzhiyun depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n 575*4882a593Smuzhiyun select NET_DEVLINK 576*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 577*4882a593Smuzhiyun This driver is a developer testing tool and software model that can 578*4882a593Smuzhiyun be used to test various control path networking APIs, especially 579*4882a593Smuzhiyun HW-offload related. 580*4882a593Smuzhiyun 581*4882a593Smuzhiyun To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 582*4882a593Smuzhiyun will be called netdevsim. 583*4882a593Smuzhiyun 584*4882a593Smuzhiyunconfig NET_FAILOVER 585*4882a593Smuzhiyun tristate "Failover driver" 586*4882a593Smuzhiyun select FAILOVER 587*4882a593Smuzhiyun help 588*4882a593Smuzhiyun This provides an automated failover mechanism via APIs to create 589*4882a593Smuzhiyun and destroy a failover master netdev and manages a primary and 590*4882a593Smuzhiyun standby slave netdevs that get registered via the generic failover 591*4882a593Smuzhiyun infrastructure. This can be used by paravirtual drivers to enable 592*4882a593Smuzhiyun an alternate low latency datapath. It also enables live migration of 593*4882a593Smuzhiyun a VM with direct attached VF by failing over to the paravirtual 594*4882a593Smuzhiyun datapath when the VF is unplugged. 595*4882a593Smuzhiyun 596*4882a593Smuzhiyunendif # NETDEVICES 597