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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
69 will be called dummy. If you want to use more than one dummy
70 device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module.
71 Instead of 'dummy', the devices will then be called 'dummy0',
72 'dummy1' etc.
73
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -070074config EQUALIZER
75 tristate "EQL (serial line load balancing) support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070076 ---help---
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -070077 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.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070084
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -070085 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>.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070089
90 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -070091 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".
105
106config MII
107 tristate "Generic Media Independent Interface device support"
108 help
109 Most ethernet controllers have MII transceiver either as an external
110 or internal device. It is safe to say Y or M here even if your
111 ethernet card lacks MII.
112
113source "drivers/ieee802154/Kconfig"
114
115config IFB
116 tristate "Intermediate Functional Block support"
117 depends on NET_CLS_ACT
118 ---help---
119 This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of
120 resources.
121 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
122 will be called ifb. If you want to use more than one ifb
123 device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module.
124 Instead of 'ifb', the devices will then be called 'ifb0',
125 'ifb1' etc.
126 Look at the iproute2 documentation directory for usage etc
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700127
Jiri Pirko3d249d42011-11-11 22:16:48 +0000128source "drivers/net/team/Kconfig"
129
Patrick McHardyb863ceb2007-07-14 18:55:06 -0700130config MACVLAN
131 tristate "MAC-VLAN support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
132 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
133 ---help---
134 This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to
135 or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface.
136
Patrick McHardy3dbf8d52008-02-26 17:52:05 -0800137 Macvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the
138 iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-2.6.23 release:
139
140 "ip link add link <real dev> [ address MAC ] [ NAME ] type macvlan"
141
Patrick McHardyb863ceb2007-07-14 18:55:06 -0700142 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
143 will be called macvlan.
144
Arnd Bergmann20d29d72010-01-30 12:24:26 +0000145config MACVTAP
146 tristate "MAC-VLAN based tap driver (EXPERIMENTAL)"
147 depends on MACVLAN
148 help
149 This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based
150 on the MAC-VLAN network interface, called macvtap. A macvtap device
151 can be added in the same way as a macvlan device, using 'type
152 macvlan', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface.
153
154 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
155 will be called macvtap.
156
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -0700157config NETCONSOLE
158 tristate "Network console logging support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700159 ---help---
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -0700160 If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this.
161 See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700162
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -0700163config NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC
164 bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets"
165 depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && CONFIGFS_FS && \
166 !(NETCONSOLE=y && CONFIGFS_FS=m)
167 help
168 This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target
169 parameters (interface, IP addresses, port numbers, MAC addresses)
170 at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs.
171 See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700172
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -0700173config NETPOLL
174 def_bool NETCONSOLE
175
176config NETPOLL_TRAP
177 bool "Netpoll traffic trapping"
178 default n
179 depends on NETPOLL
180
181config NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
182 def_bool NETPOLL
183
184config RIONET
185 tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support"
186 depends on RAPIDIO
187
188config RIONET_TX_SIZE
189 int "Number of outbound queue entries"
190 depends on RIONET
191 default "128"
192
193config RIONET_RX_SIZE
194 int "Number of inbound queue entries"
195 depends on RIONET
196 default "128"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700197
198config TUN
199 tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700200 select CRC32
201 ---help---
202 TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space
203 programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet
204 device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media,
205 receives them from user space program and instead of sending packets
206 via physical media writes them to the user space program.
207
208 When a program opens /dev/net/tun, driver creates and registers
209 corresponding net device tunX or tapX. After a program closed above
210 devices, driver will automatically delete tunXX or tapXX device and
211 all routes corresponding to it.
212
213 Please read <file:Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt> for more
214 information.
215
216 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
217 will be called tun.
218
219 If you don't know what to use this for, you don't need it.
220
Pavel Emelyanove314dbd2007-09-25 16:14:46 -0700221config VETH
Rusty Russell6a9a0252007-11-06 20:35:55 -0800222 tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device"
Pavel Emelyanove314dbd2007-09-25 16:14:46 -0700223 ---help---
Rusty Russell6a9a0252007-11-06 20:35:55 -0800224 This device is a local ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs.
225 When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice
226 versa.
Pavel Emelyanove314dbd2007-09-25 16:14:46 -0700227
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -0700228config VIRTIO_NET
229 tristate "Virtio network driver (EXPERIMENTAL)"
230 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && VIRTIO
231 ---help---
232 This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with
233 lguest or QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M.
234
235endif # NET_CORE
236
237config SUNGEM_PHY
238 tristate
239
240source "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig"
241
242source "drivers/atm/Kconfig"
243
244source "drivers/net/caif/Kconfig"
245
Ben Hutchings3b158852011-11-27 17:08:33 +0000246source "drivers/net/dsa/Kconfig"
247
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -0700248source "drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig"
249
250source "drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig"
251
Paul Bollefecc7352011-11-08 10:31:10 +0000252source "drivers/net/hippi/Kconfig"
253
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700254config NET_SB1000
255 tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000"
Randy Dunlapcbcd2a42005-07-27 13:04:35 -0700256 depends on PNP
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700257 ---help---
258 This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as
259 NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal
260 cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable
261 TV companies to provide cable modem access. It's a one-way
262 downstream-only cable modem, meaning that your upstream net link is
263 provided by your regular phone modem.
264
265 At present this driver only compiles as a module, so say M here if
266 you have this card. The module will be called sb1000. Then read
267 <file:Documentation/networking/README.sb1000> for information on how
268 to use this module, as it needs special ppp scripts for establishing
269 a connection. Further documentation and the necessary scripts can be
270 found at:
271
272 <http://www.jacksonville.net/~fventuri/>
273 <http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/sb1000.html>
274 <http://linuxpower.cx/~cable/>
275
276 If you don't have this card, of course say N.
277
Andy Fleming00db8182005-07-30 19:31:23 -0400278source "drivers/net/phy/Kconfig"
279
Jeff Kirsher18e635f2011-08-03 03:01:58 -0700280source "drivers/net/plip/Kconfig"
281
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -0700282source "drivers/net/ppp/Kconfig"
283
Jeff Kirsherb5451d72011-08-03 03:17:13 -0700284source "drivers/net/slip/Kconfig"
285
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -0700286source "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig"
287
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700288source "drivers/net/tokenring/Kconfig"
289
Jeff Kirsher88491d82011-08-23 00:42:10 -0700290source "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig"
291
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700292source "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig"
293
Inaky Perez-Gonzalez143ee2d2008-12-23 16:18:48 -0800294source "drivers/net/wimax/Kconfig"
295
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700296source "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig"
297
Jeremy Fitzhardinge0d160212007-07-17 18:37:06 -0700298config XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND
299 tristate "Xen network device frontend driver"
300 depends on XEN
Jeremy Fitzhardinge70030872009-03-27 16:28:34 -0700301 select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND
Jeremy Fitzhardinge0d160212007-07-17 18:37:06 -0700302 default y
303 help
Ian Campbellf942dc22011-03-15 00:06:18 +0000304 This driver provides support for Xen paravirtual network
305 devices exported by a Xen network driver domain (often
306 domain 0).
307
308 The corresponding Linux backend driver is enabled by the
309 CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND option.
310
311 If you are compiling a kernel for use as Xen guest, you
312 should say Y here. To compile this driver as a module, chose
313 M here: the module will be called xen-netfront.
314
315config XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND
316 tristate "Xen backend network device"
317 depends on XEN_BACKEND
318 help
319 This driver allows the kernel to act as a Xen network driver
320 domain which exports paravirtual network devices to other
321 Xen domains. These devices can be accessed by any operating
322 system that implements a compatible front end.
323
324 The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the
325 CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND configuration option.
326
327 The backend driver presents a standard network device
328 endpoint for each paravirtual network device to the driver
329 domain network stack. These can then be bridged or routed
330 etc in order to provide full network connectivity.
331
332 If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen network driver
333 domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To
334 compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module
335 will be called xen-netback.
Jeremy Fitzhardinge0d160212007-07-17 18:37:06 -0700336
Shreyas Bhatewarad1a890fa2009-10-13 00:15:51 -0700337config VMXNET3
Philippe De Muytere85eb112010-11-11 12:31:21 +0000338 tristate "VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver"
339 depends on PCI && INET
340 help
341 This driver supports VMware's vmxnet3 virtual ethernet NIC.
342 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
343 module will be called vmxnet3.
Shreyas Bhatewarad1a890fa2009-10-13 00:15:51 -0700344
Jan Engelhardtd1c0a652007-06-13 12:48:53 -0700345endif # NETDEVICES