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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001#
2# Network device configuration
3#
4
Jan Engelhardtd1c0a652007-06-13 12:48:53 -07005menuconfig NETDEVICES
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrussoce2d2ae2006-01-18 17:42:59 -08006 default y if UML
Jan Engelhardte0009822007-07-21 19:11:35 -07007 depends on NET
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07008 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
Randy Dunlap1618cb02006-09-25 23:11:21 -070024# All the following symbols are dependent on NETDEVICES - do not repeat
25# that for each of the symbols.
26if NETDEVICES
Randy Dunlapcbcd2a42005-07-27 13:04:35 -070027
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -070028config NET_CORE
29 default y
30 bool "Network core driver support"
Jamal Hadi Salim253af422006-01-08 22:34:25 -080031 ---help---
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -070032 You can say N here if you do not intend to use any of the
33 networking core drivers (i.e. VLAN, bridging, bonding, etc.)
34
35if NET_CORE
36
37config BONDING
38 tristate "Bonding driver support"
39 depends on INET
40 depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n
41 ---help---
42 Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet
43 Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco,
44 'Trunking' by Sun, 802.3ad by the IEEE, and 'Bonding' in Linux.
45
46 The driver supports multiple bonding modes to allow for both high
47 performance and high availability operation.
48
49 Refer to <file:Documentation/networking/bonding.txt> for more
50 information.
51
Jamal Hadi Salim253af422006-01-08 22:34:25 -080052 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -070053 will be called bonding.
Jamal Hadi Salim253af422006-01-08 22:34:25 -080054
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070055config DUMMY
56 tristate "Dummy net driver support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070057 ---help---
58 This is essentially a bit-bucket device (i.e. traffic you send to
59 this device is consigned into oblivion) with a configurable IP
60 address. It is most commonly used in order to make your currently
61 inactive SLIP address seem like a real address for local programs.
62 If you use SLIP or PPP, you might want to say Y here. Since this
63 thing often comes in handy, the default is Y. It won't enlarge your
64 kernel either. What a deal. Read about it in the Network
65 Administrator's Guide, available from
66 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>.
67
68 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
Alan Cox9f486612012-05-14 03:57:31 +000069 will be called dummy.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070070
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -070071config EQUALIZER
72 tristate "EQL (serial line load balancing) support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070073 ---help---
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -070074 If you have two serial connections to some other computer (this
75 usually requires two modems and two telephone lines) and you use
76 SLIP (the protocol for sending Internet traffic over telephone
77 lines) or PPP (a better SLIP) on them, you can make them behave like
78 one double speed connection using this driver. Naturally, this has
79 to be supported at the other end as well, either with a similar EQL
80 Linux driver or with a Livingston Portmaster 2e.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070081
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -070082 Say Y if you want this and read
83 <file:Documentation/networking/eql.txt>. You may also want to read
84 section 6.2 of the NET-3-HOWTO, available from
85 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070086
87 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -070088 will be called eql. If unsure, say N.
89
90config NET_FC
91 bool "Fibre Channel driver support"
92 depends on SCSI && PCI
93 help
94 Fibre Channel is a high speed serial protocol mainly used to connect
95 large storage devices to the computer; it is compatible with and
96 intended to replace SCSI.
97
98 If you intend to use Fibre Channel, you need to have a Fibre channel
99 adaptor card in your computer; say Y here and to the driver for your
100 adaptor below. You also should have said Y to "SCSI support" and
101 "SCSI generic support".
102
103config MII
104 tristate "Generic Media Independent Interface device support"
105 help
106 Most ethernet controllers have MII transceiver either as an external
107 or internal device. It is safe to say Y or M here even if your
108 ethernet card lacks MII.
109
110source "drivers/ieee802154/Kconfig"
111
112config IFB
113 tristate "Intermediate Functional Block support"
114 depends on NET_CLS_ACT
115 ---help---
116 This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of
117 resources.
118 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
119 will be called ifb. If you want to use more than one ifb
120 device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module.
121 Instead of 'ifb', the devices will then be called 'ifb0',
122 'ifb1' etc.
123 Look at the iproute2 documentation directory for usage etc
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700124
Jiri Pirko3d249d42011-11-11 22:16:48 +0000125source "drivers/net/team/Kconfig"
126
Patrick McHardyb863ceb2007-07-14 18:55:06 -0700127config MACVLAN
128 tristate "MAC-VLAN support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
129 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
130 ---help---
131 This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to
132 or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface.
133
Patrick McHardy3dbf8d52008-02-26 17:52:05 -0800134 Macvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the
135 iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-2.6.23 release:
136
137 "ip link add link <real dev> [ address MAC ] [ NAME ] type macvlan"
138
Patrick McHardyb863ceb2007-07-14 18:55:06 -0700139 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
140 will be called macvlan.
141
Arnd Bergmann20d29d72010-01-30 12:24:26 +0000142config MACVTAP
143 tristate "MAC-VLAN based tap driver (EXPERIMENTAL)"
144 depends on MACVLAN
145 help
146 This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based
147 on the MAC-VLAN network interface, called macvtap. A macvtap device
148 can be added in the same way as a macvlan device, using 'type
149 macvlan', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface.
150
151 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
152 will be called macvtap.
153
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -0700154config NETCONSOLE
155 tristate "Network console logging support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700156 ---help---
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -0700157 If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this.
158 See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700159
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -0700160config NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC
161 bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets"
162 depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && CONFIGFS_FS && \
163 !(NETCONSOLE=y && CONFIGFS_FS=m)
164 help
165 This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target
166 parameters (interface, IP addresses, port numbers, MAC addresses)
167 at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs.
168 See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700169
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -0700170config NETPOLL
171 def_bool NETCONSOLE
172
173config NETPOLL_TRAP
174 bool "Netpoll traffic trapping"
175 default n
176 depends on NETPOLL
177
178config NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
179 def_bool NETPOLL
180
181config RIONET
182 tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support"
183 depends on RAPIDIO
184
185config RIONET_TX_SIZE
186 int "Number of outbound queue entries"
187 depends on RIONET
188 default "128"
189
190config RIONET_RX_SIZE
191 int "Number of inbound queue entries"
192 depends on RIONET
193 default "128"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700194
195config TUN
196 tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700197 select CRC32
198 ---help---
199 TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space
200 programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet
201 device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media,
202 receives them from user space program and instead of sending packets
203 via physical media writes them to the user space program.
204
205 When a program opens /dev/net/tun, driver creates and registers
206 corresponding net device tunX or tapX. After a program closed above
207 devices, driver will automatically delete tunXX or tapXX device and
208 all routes corresponding to it.
209
210 Please read <file:Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt> for more
211 information.
212
213 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
214 will be called tun.
215
216 If you don't know what to use this for, you don't need it.
217
Pavel Emelyanove314dbd2007-09-25 16:14:46 -0700218config VETH
Rusty Russell6a9a0252007-11-06 20:35:55 -0800219 tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device"
Pavel Emelyanove314dbd2007-09-25 16:14:46 -0700220 ---help---
Rusty Russell6a9a0252007-11-06 20:35:55 -0800221 This device is a local ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs.
222 When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice
223 versa.
Pavel Emelyanove314dbd2007-09-25 16:14:46 -0700224
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -0700225config VIRTIO_NET
226 tristate "Virtio network driver (EXPERIMENTAL)"
227 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && VIRTIO
228 ---help---
229 This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with
230 lguest or QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M.
231
232endif # NET_CORE
233
234config SUNGEM_PHY
235 tristate
236
237source "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig"
238
239source "drivers/atm/Kconfig"
240
241source "drivers/net/caif/Kconfig"
242
Ben Hutchings3b158852011-11-27 17:08:33 +0000243source "drivers/net/dsa/Kconfig"
244
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -0700245source "drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig"
246
247source "drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig"
248
Paul Bollefecc7352011-11-08 10:31:10 +0000249source "drivers/net/hippi/Kconfig"
250
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700251config NET_SB1000
252 tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000"
Randy Dunlapcbcd2a42005-07-27 13:04:35 -0700253 depends on PNP
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700254 ---help---
255 This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as
256 NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal
257 cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable
258 TV companies to provide cable modem access. It's a one-way
259 downstream-only cable modem, meaning that your upstream net link is
260 provided by your regular phone modem.
261
262 At present this driver only compiles as a module, so say M here if
263 you have this card. The module will be called sb1000. Then read
264 <file:Documentation/networking/README.sb1000> for information on how
265 to use this module, as it needs special ppp scripts for establishing
266 a connection. Further documentation and the necessary scripts can be
267 found at:
268
269 <http://www.jacksonville.net/~fventuri/>
270 <http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/sb1000.html>
271 <http://linuxpower.cx/~cable/>
272
273 If you don't have this card, of course say N.
274
Andy Fleming00db8182005-07-30 19:31:23 -0400275source "drivers/net/phy/Kconfig"
276
Jeff Kirsher18e635f2011-08-03 03:01:58 -0700277source "drivers/net/plip/Kconfig"
278
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -0700279source "drivers/net/ppp/Kconfig"
280
Jeff Kirsherb5451d72011-08-03 03:17:13 -0700281source "drivers/net/slip/Kconfig"
282
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -0700283source "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig"
284
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -0700285source "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig"
286
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700287source "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig"
288
Inaky Perez-Gonzalez143ee2d2008-12-23 16:18:48 -0800289source "drivers/net/wimax/Kconfig"
290
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700291source "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig"
292
Jeremy Fitzhardinge0d160212007-07-17 18:37:06 -0700293config XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND
294 tristate "Xen network device frontend driver"
295 depends on XEN
Jeremy Fitzhardinge70030872009-03-27 16:28:34 -0700296 select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND
Jeremy Fitzhardinge0d160212007-07-17 18:37:06 -0700297 default y
298 help
Ian Campbellf942dc22011-03-15 00:06:18 +0000299 This driver provides support for Xen paravirtual network
300 devices exported by a Xen network driver domain (often
301 domain 0).
302
303 The corresponding Linux backend driver is enabled by the
304 CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND option.
305
306 If you are compiling a kernel for use as Xen guest, you
307 should say Y here. To compile this driver as a module, chose
308 M here: the module will be called xen-netfront.
309
310config XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND
311 tristate "Xen backend network device"
312 depends on XEN_BACKEND
313 help
314 This driver allows the kernel to act as a Xen network driver
315 domain which exports paravirtual network devices to other
316 Xen domains. These devices can be accessed by any operating
317 system that implements a compatible front end.
318
319 The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the
320 CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND configuration option.
321
322 The backend driver presents a standard network device
323 endpoint for each paravirtual network device to the driver
324 domain network stack. These can then be bridged or routed
325 etc in order to provide full network connectivity.
326
327 If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen network driver
328 domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To
329 compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module
330 will be called xen-netback.
Jeremy Fitzhardinge0d160212007-07-17 18:37:06 -0700331
Shreyas Bhatewarad1a890fa2009-10-13 00:15:51 -0700332config VMXNET3
Philippe De Muytere85eb112010-11-11 12:31:21 +0000333 tristate "VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver"
334 depends on PCI && INET
335 help
336 This driver supports VMware's vmxnet3 virtual ethernet NIC.
337 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
338 module will be called vmxnet3.
Shreyas Bhatewarad1a890fa2009-10-13 00:15:51 -0700339
Haiyang Zhang95fa0402011-11-28 13:35:35 -0800340source "drivers/net/hyperv/Kconfig"
341
Jan Engelhardtd1c0a652007-06-13 12:48:53 -0700342endif # NETDEVICES