# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only # # 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 . If unsure, say Y. # All the following symbols are dependent on NETDEVICES - do not repeat # that for each of the symbols. if NETDEVICES config MII tristate 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 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. It won't enlarge your kernel. What a deal. Read about it in the Network Administrator's Guide, available from . To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called dummy. 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 . You may also want to read section 6.2 of the NET-3-HOWTO, available from . 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 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 source "drivers/net/team/Kconfig" config MACVLAN tristate "MAC-VLAN support" ---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 [ 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" depends on MACVLAN depends on INET select TAP 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 macvtap', 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 IPVLAN_L3S depends on NETFILTER depends on IPVLAN def_bool y select NET_L3_MASTER_DEV config IPVLAN tristate "IP-VLAN support" depends on INET depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 ---help--- This allows one to create virtual devices off of a main interface and packets will be delivered based on the dest L3 (IPv6/IPv4 addr) on packets. All interfaces (including the main interface) share L2 making it transparent to the connected L2 switch. Ipvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-3.19 release: "ip link add link [ NAME ] type ipvlan" To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called ipvlan. config IPVTAP tristate "IP-VLAN based tap driver" depends on IPVLAN depends on INET select TAP ---help--- This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based on the IP-VLAN network interface, called ipvtap. An ipvtap device can be added in the same way as a ipvlan device, using 'type ipvtap', 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 ipvtap. config VXLAN tristate "Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN)" depends on INET select NET_UDP_TUNNEL select GRO_CELLS ---help--- This allows one to create vxlan virtual interfaces that provide Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. VXLAN is often used to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments. For more information see: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-02 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called vxlan. config GENEVE tristate "Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation" depends on INET depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 select NET_UDP_TUNNEL select GRO_CELLS ---help--- This allows one to create geneve virtual interfaces that provide Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. GENEVE is often used to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments. For more information see: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gross-geneve-02 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called geneve. config GTP tristate "GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U)" depends on INET select NET_UDP_TUNNEL ---help--- This allows one to create gtp virtual interfaces that provide the GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U). This tunneling protocol is used to prevent subscribers from accessing mobile carrier core network infrastructure. This driver requires a userspace software that implements the signaling protocol (GTP-C) to update its PDP context base, such as OpenGGSN 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 for details. config NETPOLL def_bool NETCONSOLE select SRCU config NET_POLL_CONTROLLER def_bool NETPOLL config NTB_NETDEV tristate "Virtual Ethernet over NTB Transport" depends on NTB_TRANSPORT 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" depends on INET 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 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 TAP tristate ---help--- This option is selected by any driver implementing tap user space interface for a virtual interface to re-use core tap functionality. config TUN_VNET_CROSS_LE bool "Support for cross-endian vnet headers on little-endian kernels" default n ---help--- This option allows TUN/TAP and MACVTAP device drivers in a little-endian kernel to parse vnet headers that come from a big-endian legacy virtio device. Userspace programs can control the feature using the TUNSETVNETBE and TUNGETVNETBE ioctls. Unless you have a little-endian system hosting a big-endian virtual machine with a legacy virtio NIC, you should say N. 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" depends on VIRTIO select NET_FAILOVER ---help--- This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M. config NLMON tristate "Virtual netlink monitoring device" ---help--- This option enables a monitoring net device for netlink skbs. The purpose of this is to analyze netlink messages with packet sockets. Thus applications like tcpdump will be able to see local netlink messages if they tap into the netlink device, record pcaps for further diagnostics, etc. This is mostly intended for developers or support to debug netlink issues. If unsure, say N. config NET_VRF tristate "Virtual Routing and Forwarding (Lite)" depends on IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES depends on NET_L3_MASTER_DEV depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n depends on IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES || IPV6=n ---help--- This option enables the support for mapping interfaces into VRF's. The support enables VRF devices. config VSOCKMON tristate "Virtual vsock monitoring device" depends on VHOST_VSOCK ---help--- This option enables a monitoring net device for vsock sockets. It is mostly intended for developers or support to debug vsock issues. If unsure, say N. endif # NET_CORE config SUNGEM_PHY tristate source "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig" source "drivers/atm/Kconfig" source "drivers/net/caif/Kconfig" source "drivers/net/dsa/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 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: 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/usb/Kconfig" source "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig" source "drivers/net/wimax/Kconfig" source "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig" source "drivers/net/ieee802154/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 depends on !(PAGE_SIZE_64KB || ARM64_64K_PAGES || \ IA64_PAGE_SIZE_64KB || MICROBLAZE_64K_PAGES || \ PARISC_PAGE_SIZE_64KB || PPC_64K_PAGES) 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. config FUJITSU_ES tristate "FUJITSU Extended Socket Network Device driver" depends on ACPI help This driver provides support for Extended Socket network device on Extended Partitioning of FUJITSU PRIMEQUEST 2000 E2 series. config THUNDERBOLT_NET tristate "Networking over Thunderbolt cable" depends on THUNDERBOLT && INET help Select this if you want to create network between two computers over a Thunderbolt cable. The driver supports Apple ThunderboltIP protocol and allows communication with any host supporting the same protocol including Windows and macOS. To compile this driver a module, choose M here. The module will be called thunderbolt-net. source "drivers/net/hyperv/Kconfig" config NETDEVSIM tristate "Simulated networking device" depends on DEBUG_FS select NET_DEVLINK help This driver is a developer testing tool and software model that can be used to test various control path networking APIs, especially HW-offload related. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called netdevsim. config NET_FAILOVER tristate "Failover driver" select FAILOVER help This provides an automated failover mechanism via APIs to create and destroy a failover master netdev and manages a primary and standby slave netdevs that get registered via the generic failover infrastructure. This can be used by paravirtual drivers to enable an alternate low latency datapath. It also enables live migration of a VM with direct attached VF by failing over to the paravirtual datapath when the VF is unplugged. endif # NETDEVICES