| Jiri Pirko | 3d249d4 | 2011-11-11 22:16:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | menuconfig NET_TEAM |
| 2 | tristate "Ethernet team driver support (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
| 3 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL |
| 4 | ---help--- |
| 5 | This allows one to create virtual interfaces that teams together |
| 6 | multiple ethernet devices. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Team devices can be added using the "ip" command from the |
| 9 | iproute2 package: |
| 10 | |
| 11 | "ip link add link [ address MAC ] [ NAME ] type team" |
| 12 | |
| 13 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module |
| 14 | will be called team. |
| 15 | |
| 16 | if NET_TEAM |
| 17 | |
| 18 | config NET_TEAM_MODE_ROUNDROBIN |
| 19 | tristate "Round-robin mode support" |
| 20 | depends on NET_TEAM |
| 21 | ---help--- |
| 22 | Basic mode where port used for transmitting packets is selected in |
| 23 | round-robin fashion using packet counter. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | All added ports are setup to have bond's mac address. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | To compile this team mode as a module, choose M here: the module |
| 28 | will be called team_mode_roundrobin. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | config NET_TEAM_MODE_ACTIVEBACKUP |
| 31 | tristate "Active-backup mode support" |
| 32 | depends on NET_TEAM |
| 33 | ---help--- |
| 34 | Only one port is active at a time and the rest of ports are used |
| 35 | for backup. |
| 36 | |
| 37 | Mac addresses of ports are not modified. Userspace is responsible |
| 38 | to do so. |
| 39 | |
| 40 | To compile this team mode as a module, choose M here: the module |
| 41 | will be called team_mode_activebackup. |
| 42 | |
| 43 | endif # NET_TEAM |