| # |
| # Network device configuration |
| # |
| |
| menuconfig NETDEVICES |
| default y if UML |
| depends on NET |
| bool "Network device support" |
| ---help--- |
| You can say N here if you don't intend to connect your Linux box to |
| any other computer at all. |
| |
| You'll have to say Y if your computer contains a network card that |
| you want to use under Linux. If you are going to run SLIP or PPP over |
| telephone line or null modem cable you need say Y here. Connecting |
| two machines with parallel ports using PLIP needs this, as well as |
| AX.25/KISS for sending Internet traffic over amateur radio links. |
| |
| See also "The Linux Network Administrator's Guide" by Olaf Kirch and |
| Terry Dawson. Available at <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. |
| |
| If unsure, say Y. |
| |
| # All the following symbols are dependent on NETDEVICES - do not repeat |
| # that for each of the symbols. |
| if NETDEVICES |
| |
| config NET_CORE |
| default y |
| bool "Network core driver support" |
| ---help--- |
| You can say N here if you do not intend to use any of the |
| networking core drivers (i.e. VLAN, bridging, bonding, etc.) |
| |
| if NET_CORE |
| |
| config BONDING |
| tristate "Bonding driver support" |
| depends on INET |
| depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n |
| ---help--- |
| Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet |
| Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco, |
| 'Trunking' by Sun, 802.3ad by the IEEE, and 'Bonding' in Linux. |
| |
| The driver supports multiple bonding modes to allow for both high |
| performance and high availability operation. |
| |
| Refer to <file:Documentation/networking/bonding.txt> for more |
| information. |
| |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module |
| will be called bonding. |
| |
| config DUMMY |
| tristate "Dummy net driver support" |
| ---help--- |
| This is essentially a bit-bucket device (i.e. traffic you send to |
| this device is consigned into oblivion) with a configurable IP |
| address. It is most commonly used in order to make your currently |
| inactive SLIP address seem like a real address for local programs. |
| If you use SLIP or PPP, you might want to say Y here. Since this |
| thing often comes in handy, the default is Y. It won't enlarge your |
| kernel either. What a deal. Read about it in the Network |
| Administrator's Guide, available from |
| <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>. |
| |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module |
| will be called dummy. If you want to use more than one dummy |
| device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module. |
| Instead of 'dummy', the devices will then be called 'dummy0', |
| 'dummy1' etc. |
| |
| config EQUALIZER |
| tristate "EQL (serial line load balancing) support" |
| ---help--- |
| If you have two serial connections to some other computer (this |
| usually requires two modems and two telephone lines) and you use |
| SLIP (the protocol for sending Internet traffic over telephone |
| lines) or PPP (a better SLIP) on them, you can make them behave like |
| one double speed connection using this driver. Naturally, this has |
| to be supported at the other end as well, either with a similar EQL |
| Linux driver or with a Livingston Portmaster 2e. |
| |
| Say Y if you want this and read |
| <file:Documentation/networking/eql.txt>. You may also want to read |
| section 6.2 of the NET-3-HOWTO, available from |
| <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. |
| |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module |
| will be called eql. If unsure, say N. |
| |
| config NET_FC |
| bool "Fibre Channel driver support" |
| depends on SCSI && PCI |
| help |
| Fibre Channel is a high speed serial protocol mainly used to connect |
| large storage devices to the computer; it is compatible with and |
| intended to replace SCSI. |
| |
| If you intend to use Fibre Channel, you need to have a Fibre channel |
| adaptor card in your computer; say Y here and to the driver for your |
| adaptor below. You also should have said Y to "SCSI support" and |
| "SCSI generic support". |
| |
| config MII |
| tristate "Generic Media Independent Interface device support" |
| help |
| Most ethernet controllers have MII transceiver either as an external |
| or internal device. It is safe to say Y or M here even if your |
| ethernet card lacks MII. |
| |
| source "drivers/ieee802154/Kconfig" |
| |
| config IFB |
| tristate "Intermediate Functional Block support" |
| depends on NET_CLS_ACT |
| ---help--- |
| This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of |
| resources. |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module |
| will be called ifb. If you want to use more than one ifb |
| device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module. |
| Instead of 'ifb', the devices will then be called 'ifb0', |
| 'ifb1' etc. |
| Look at the iproute2 documentation directory for usage etc |
| |
| config MACVLAN |
| tristate "MAC-VLAN support (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
| depends on EXPERIMENTAL |
| ---help--- |
| This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to |
| or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface. |
| |
| Macvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the |
| iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-2.6.23 release: |
| |
| "ip link add link <real dev> [ address MAC ] [ NAME ] type macvlan" |
| |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module |
| will be called macvlan. |
| |
| config MACVTAP |
| tristate "MAC-VLAN based tap driver (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
| depends on MACVLAN |
| help |
| This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based |
| on the MAC-VLAN network interface, called macvtap. A macvtap device |
| can be added in the same way as a macvlan device, using 'type |
| macvlan', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface. |
| |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module |
| will be called macvtap. |
| |
| config NETCONSOLE |
| tristate "Network console logging support" |
| ---help--- |
| If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this. |
| See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. |
| |
| config NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC |
| bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets" |
| depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && CONFIGFS_FS && \ |
| !(NETCONSOLE=y && CONFIGFS_FS=m) |
| help |
| This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target |
| parameters (interface, IP addresses, port numbers, MAC addresses) |
| at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs. |
| See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. |
| |
| config NETPOLL |
| def_bool NETCONSOLE |
| |
| config NETPOLL_TRAP |
| bool "Netpoll traffic trapping" |
| default n |
| depends on NETPOLL |
| |
| config NET_POLL_CONTROLLER |
| def_bool NETPOLL |
| |
| config RIONET |
| tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support" |
| depends on RAPIDIO |
| |
| config RIONET_TX_SIZE |
| int "Number of outbound queue entries" |
| depends on RIONET |
| default "128" |
| |
| config RIONET_RX_SIZE |
| int "Number of inbound queue entries" |
| depends on RIONET |
| default "128" |
| |
| config TUN |
| tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support" |
| select CRC32 |
| ---help--- |
| TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space |
| programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet |
| device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media, |
| receives them from user space program and instead of sending packets |
| via physical media writes them to the user space program. |
| |
| When a program opens /dev/net/tun, driver creates and registers |
| corresponding net device tunX or tapX. After a program closed above |
| devices, driver will automatically delete tunXX or tapXX device and |
| all routes corresponding to it. |
| |
| Please read <file:Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt> for more |
| information. |
| |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module |
| will be called tun. |
| |
| If you don't know what to use this for, you don't need it. |
| |
| config VETH |
| tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device" |
| ---help--- |
| This device is a local ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs. |
| When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice |
| versa. |
| |
| config VIRTIO_NET |
| tristate "Virtio network driver (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
| depends on EXPERIMENTAL && VIRTIO |
| ---help--- |
| This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with |
| lguest or QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M. |
| |
| endif # NET_CORE |
| |
| config SUNGEM_PHY |
| tristate |
| |
| source "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig" |
| |
| source "drivers/atm/Kconfig" |
| |
| source "drivers/net/caif/Kconfig" |
| |
| source "drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig" |
| |
| source "drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig" |
| |
| source "drivers/net/hippi/Kconfig" |
| |
| config NET_SB1000 |
| tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000" |
| depends on PNP |
| ---help--- |
| This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as |
| NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal |
| cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable |
| TV companies to provide cable modem access. It's a one-way |
| downstream-only cable modem, meaning that your upstream net link is |
| provided by your regular phone modem. |
| |
| At present this driver only compiles as a module, so say M here if |
| you have this card. The module will be called sb1000. Then read |
| <file:Documentation/networking/README.sb1000> for information on how |
| to use this module, as it needs special ppp scripts for establishing |
| a connection. Further documentation and the necessary scripts can be |
| found at: |
| |
| <http://www.jacksonville.net/~fventuri/> |
| <http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/sb1000.html> |
| <http://linuxpower.cx/~cable/> |
| |
| If you don't have this card, of course say N. |
| |
| source "drivers/net/phy/Kconfig" |
| |
| source "drivers/net/plip/Kconfig" |
| |
| source "drivers/net/ppp/Kconfig" |
| |
| source "drivers/net/slip/Kconfig" |
| |
| source "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig" |
| |
| source "drivers/net/tokenring/Kconfig" |
| |
| source "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig" |
| |
| source "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig" |
| |
| source "drivers/net/wimax/Kconfig" |
| |
| source "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig" |
| |
| config XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND |
| tristate "Xen network device frontend driver" |
| depends on XEN |
| select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND |
| default y |
| help |
| This driver provides support for Xen paravirtual network |
| devices exported by a Xen network driver domain (often |
| domain 0). |
| |
| The corresponding Linux backend driver is enabled by the |
| CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND option. |
| |
| If you are compiling a kernel for use as Xen guest, you |
| should say Y here. To compile this driver as a module, chose |
| M here: the module will be called xen-netfront. |
| |
| config XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND |
| tristate "Xen backend network device" |
| depends on XEN_BACKEND |
| help |
| This driver allows the kernel to act as a Xen network driver |
| domain which exports paravirtual network devices to other |
| Xen domains. These devices can be accessed by any operating |
| system that implements a compatible front end. |
| |
| The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the |
| CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND configuration option. |
| |
| The backend driver presents a standard network device |
| endpoint for each paravirtual network device to the driver |
| domain network stack. These can then be bridged or routed |
| etc in order to provide full network connectivity. |
| |
| If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen network driver |
| domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To |
| compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module |
| will be called xen-netback. |
| |
| config VMXNET3 |
| tristate "VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver" |
| depends on PCI && INET |
| help |
| This driver supports VMware's vmxnet3 virtual ethernet NIC. |
| To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the |
| module will be called vmxnet3. |
| |
| endif # NETDEVICES |