1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2# 3# Network device configuration 4# 5 6menuconfig NETDEVICES 7 default y if UML 8 depends on NET 9 bool "Network device support" 10 help 11 You can say N here if you don't intend to connect your Linux box to 12 any other computer at all. 13 14 You'll have to say Y if your computer contains a network card that 15 you want to use under Linux. If you are going to run SLIP or PPP over 16 telephone line or null modem cable you need say Y here. Connecting 17 two machines with parallel ports using PLIP needs this, as well as 18 AX.25/KISS for sending Internet traffic over amateur radio links. 19 20 See also "The Linux Network Administrator's Guide" by Olaf Kirch and 21 Terry Dawson. Available at <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 22 23 If unsure, say Y. 24 25# All the following symbols are dependent on NETDEVICES - do not repeat 26# that for each of the symbols. 27if NETDEVICES 28 29config MII 30 tristate 31 32config NET_CORE 33 default y 34 bool "Network core driver support" 35 help 36 You can say N here if you do not intend to use any of the 37 networking core drivers (i.e. VLAN, bridging, bonding, etc.) 38 39if NET_CORE 40 41config BONDING 42 tristate "Bonding driver support" 43 depends on INET 44 depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n 45 depends on TLS || TLS_DEVICE=n 46 help 47 Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet 48 Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco, 49 'Trunking' by Sun, 802.3ad by the IEEE, and 'Bonding' in Linux. 50 51 The driver supports multiple bonding modes to allow for both high 52 performance and high availability operation. 53 54 Refer to <file:Documentation/networking/bonding.rst> for more 55 information. 56 57 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 58 will be called bonding. 59 60config DUMMY 61 tristate "Dummy net driver support" 62 help 63 This is essentially a bit-bucket device (i.e. traffic you send to 64 this device is consigned into oblivion) with a configurable IP 65 address. It is most commonly used in order to make your currently 66 inactive SLIP address seem like a real address for local programs. 67 If you use SLIP or PPP, you might want to say Y here. It won't 68 enlarge your kernel. What a deal. Read about it in the Network 69 Administrator's Guide, available from 70 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>. 71 72 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 73 will be called dummy. 74 75config WIREGUARD 76 tristate "WireGuard secure network tunnel" 77 depends on NET && INET 78 depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 79 depends on !KMSAN # KMSAN doesn't support the crypto configs below 80 select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 81 select DST_CACHE 82 select CRYPTO 83 select CRYPTO_LIB_CURVE25519 84 select CRYPTO_LIB_CHACHA20POLY1305 85 select CRYPTO_CHACHA20_X86_64 if X86 && 64BIT 86 select CRYPTO_POLY1305_X86_64 if X86 && 64BIT 87 select CRYPTO_BLAKE2S_X86 if X86 && 64BIT 88 select CRYPTO_CURVE25519_X86 if X86 && 64BIT 89 select CRYPTO_CHACHA20_NEON if ARM || (ARM64 && KERNEL_MODE_NEON) 90 select CRYPTO_POLY1305_NEON if ARM64 && KERNEL_MODE_NEON 91 select CRYPTO_POLY1305_ARM if ARM 92 select CRYPTO_BLAKE2S_ARM if ARM 93 select CRYPTO_CURVE25519_NEON if ARM && KERNEL_MODE_NEON 94 select CRYPTO_CHACHA_MIPS if CPU_MIPS32_R2 95 select CRYPTO_POLY1305_MIPS if MIPS 96 select CRYPTO_CHACHA_S390 if S390 97 help 98 WireGuard is a secure, fast, and easy to use replacement for IPSec 99 that uses modern cryptography and clever networking tricks. It's 100 designed to be fairly general purpose and abstract enough to fit most 101 use cases, while at the same time remaining extremely simple to 102 configure. See www.wireguard.com for more info. 103 104 It's safe to say Y or M here, as the driver is very lightweight and 105 is only in use when an administrator chooses to add an interface. 106 107config WIREGUARD_DEBUG 108 bool "Debugging checks and verbose messages" 109 depends on WIREGUARD 110 help 111 This will write log messages for handshake and other events 112 that occur for a WireGuard interface. It will also perform some 113 extra validation checks and unit tests at various points. This is 114 only useful for debugging. 115 116 Say N here unless you know what you're doing. 117 118config EQUALIZER 119 tristate "EQL (serial line load balancing) support" 120 help 121 If you have two serial connections to some other computer (this 122 usually requires two modems and two telephone lines) and you use 123 SLIP (the protocol for sending Internet traffic over telephone 124 lines) or PPP (a better SLIP) on them, you can make them behave like 125 one double speed connection using this driver. Naturally, this has 126 to be supported at the other end as well, either with a similar EQL 127 Linux driver or with a Livingston Portmaster 2e. 128 129 Say Y if you want this and read 130 <file:Documentation/networking/eql.rst>. You may also want to read 131 section 6.2 of the NET-3-HOWTO, available from 132 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 133 134 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 135 will be called eql. If unsure, say N. 136 137config NET_FC 138 bool "Fibre Channel driver support" 139 depends on SCSI && PCI 140 help 141 Fibre Channel is a high speed serial protocol mainly used to connect 142 large storage devices to the computer; it is compatible with and 143 intended to replace SCSI. 144 145 If you intend to use Fibre Channel, you need to have a Fibre channel 146 adaptor card in your computer; say Y here and to the driver for your 147 adaptor below. You also should have said Y to "SCSI support" and 148 "SCSI generic support". 149 150config IFB 151 tristate "Intermediate Functional Block support" 152 depends on NET_ACT_MIRRED || NFT_FWD_NETDEV 153 select NET_REDIRECT 154 help 155 This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of 156 resources. 157 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 158 will be called ifb. If you want to use more than one ifb 159 device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module. 160 Instead of 'ifb', the devices will then be called 'ifb0', 161 'ifb1' etc. 162 Look at the iproute2 documentation directory for usage etc 163 164source "drivers/net/team/Kconfig" 165 166config MACVLAN 167 tristate "MAC-VLAN support" 168 help 169 This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to 170 or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface. 171 172 Macvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the 173 iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-2.6.23 release: 174 175 "ip link add link <real dev> [ address MAC ] [ NAME ] type macvlan" 176 177 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 178 will be called macvlan. 179 180config MACVTAP 181 tristate "MAC-VLAN based tap driver" 182 depends on MACVLAN 183 depends on INET 184 select TAP 185 help 186 This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based 187 on the MAC-VLAN network interface, called macvtap. A macvtap device 188 can be added in the same way as a macvlan device, using 'type 189 macvtap', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface. 190 191 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 192 will be called macvtap. 193 194config IPVLAN_L3S 195 depends on NETFILTER 196 depends on IPVLAN 197 def_bool y 198 select NET_L3_MASTER_DEV 199 200config IPVLAN 201 tristate "IP-VLAN support" 202 depends on INET 203 depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 204 help 205 This allows one to create virtual devices off of a main interface 206 and packets will be delivered based on the dest L3 (IPv6/IPv4 addr) 207 on packets. All interfaces (including the main interface) share L2 208 making it transparent to the connected L2 switch. 209 210 Ipvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the 211 iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-3.19 release: 212 213 "ip link add link <main-dev> [ NAME ] type ipvlan" 214 215 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 216 will be called ipvlan. 217 218config IPVTAP 219 tristate "IP-VLAN based tap driver" 220 depends on IPVLAN 221 depends on INET 222 select TAP 223 help 224 This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based 225 on the IP-VLAN network interface, called ipvtap. An ipvtap device 226 can be added in the same way as a ipvlan device, using 'type 227 ipvtap', and then be accessed through the tap user space interface. 228 229 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 230 will be called ipvtap. 231 232config VXLAN 233 tristate "Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN)" 234 depends on INET 235 select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 236 select GRO_CELLS 237 help 238 This allows one to create vxlan virtual interfaces that provide 239 Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. VXLAN is often used 240 to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments. 241 For more information see: 242 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-02 243 244 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 245 will be called vxlan. 246 247config GENEVE 248 tristate "Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation" 249 depends on INET 250 depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 251 select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 252 select GRO_CELLS 253 help 254 This allows one to create geneve virtual interfaces that provide 255 Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. GENEVE is often used 256 to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments. 257 For more information see: 258 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gross-geneve-02 259 260 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 261 will be called geneve. 262 263config BAREUDP 264 tristate "Bare UDP Encapsulation" 265 depends on INET 266 depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 267 select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 268 select GRO_CELLS 269 help 270 This adds a bare UDP tunnel module for tunnelling different 271 kinds of traffic like MPLS, IP, etc. inside a UDP tunnel. 272 273 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 274 will be called bareudp. 275 276config GTP 277 tristate "GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U)" 278 depends on INET 279 select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 280 help 281 This allows one to create gtp virtual interfaces that provide 282 the GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U). This tunneling protocol 283 is used to prevent subscribers from accessing mobile carrier core 284 network infrastructure. This driver requires a userspace software that 285 implements the signaling protocol (GTP-C) to update its PDP context 286 base, such as OpenGGSN <http://git.osmocom.org/openggsn/). This 287 tunneling protocol is implemented according to the GSM TS 09.60 and 288 3GPP TS 29.060 standards. 289 290 To compile this drivers as a module, choose M here: the module 291 will be called gtp. 292 293config AMT 294 tristate "Automatic Multicast Tunneling (AMT)" 295 depends on INET && IP_MULTICAST 296 depends on IPV6 || !IPV6 297 select NET_UDP_TUNNEL 298 help 299 This allows one to create AMT(Automatic Multicast Tunneling) 300 virtual interfaces that provide multicast tunneling. 301 There are two roles, Gateway, and Relay. 302 Gateway Encapsulates IGMP/MLD traffic from listeners to the Relay. 303 Gateway Decapsulates multicast traffic from the Relay to Listeners. 304 Relay Encapsulates multicast traffic from Sources to Gateway. 305 Relay Decapsulates IGMP/MLD traffic from Gateway. 306 307 To compile this drivers as a module, choose M here: the module 308 will be called amt. 309 310config MACSEC 311 tristate "IEEE 802.1AE MAC-level encryption (MACsec)" 312 select CRYPTO 313 select CRYPTO_AES 314 select CRYPTO_GCM 315 select GRO_CELLS 316 help 317 MACsec is an encryption standard for Ethernet. 318 319config NETCONSOLE 320 tristate "Network console logging support" 321 help 322 If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this. 323 See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst> for details. 324 325config NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC 326 bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets" 327 depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && CONFIGFS_FS && \ 328 !(NETCONSOLE=y && CONFIGFS_FS=m) 329 help 330 This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target 331 parameters (interface, IP addresses, port numbers, MAC addresses) 332 at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs. 333 See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst> for details. 334 335config NETCONSOLE_EXTENDED_LOG 336 bool "Set kernel extended message by default" 337 depends on NETCONSOLE 338 default n 339 help 340 Set extended log support for netconsole message. If this option is 341 set, log messages are transmitted with extended metadata header in a 342 format similar to /dev/kmsg. See 343 <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst> for details. 344 345config NETCONSOLE_PREPEND_RELEASE 346 bool "Prepend kernel release version in the message by default" 347 depends on NETCONSOLE_EXTENDED_LOG 348 default n 349 help 350 Set kernel release to be prepended to each netconsole message by 351 default. If this option is set, the kernel release is prepended into 352 the first field of every netconsole message, so, the netconsole 353 server/peer can easily identify what kernel release is logging each 354 message. See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst> for 355 details. 356 357config NETPOLL 358 def_bool NETCONSOLE 359 360config NET_POLL_CONTROLLER 361 def_bool NETPOLL 362 363config NTB_NETDEV 364 tristate "Virtual Ethernet over NTB Transport" 365 depends on NTB_TRANSPORT 366 367config RIONET 368 tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support" 369 depends on RAPIDIO 370 371config RIONET_TX_SIZE 372 int "Number of outbound queue entries" 373 depends on RIONET 374 default "128" 375 376config RIONET_RX_SIZE 377 int "Number of inbound queue entries" 378 depends on RIONET 379 default "128" 380 381config TUN 382 tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support" 383 depends on INET 384 select CRC32 385 help 386 TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space 387 programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet 388 device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media, 389 receives them from user space program and instead of sending packets 390 via physical media writes them to the user space program. 391 392 When a program opens /dev/net/tun, driver creates and registers 393 corresponding net device tunX or tapX. After a program closed above 394 devices, driver will automatically delete tunXX or tapXX device and 395 all routes corresponding to it. 396 397 Please read <file:Documentation/networking/tuntap.rst> for more 398 information. 399 400 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 401 will be called tun. 402 403 If you don't know what to use this for, you don't need it. 404 405config TAP 406 tristate 407 help 408 This option is selected by any driver implementing tap user space 409 interface for a virtual interface to re-use core tap functionality. 410 411config TUN_VNET_CROSS_LE 412 bool "Support for cross-endian vnet headers on little-endian kernels" 413 default n 414 help 415 This option allows TUN/TAP and MACVTAP device drivers in a 416 little-endian kernel to parse vnet headers that come from a 417 big-endian legacy virtio device. 418 419 Userspace programs can control the feature using the TUNSETVNETBE 420 and TUNGETVNETBE ioctls. 421 422 Unless you have a little-endian system hosting a big-endian virtual 423 machine with a legacy virtio NIC, you should say N. 424 425config VETH 426 tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device" 427 select PAGE_POOL 428 help 429 This device is a local ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs. 430 When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice 431 versa. 432 433config VIRTIO_NET 434 tristate "Virtio network driver" 435 depends on VIRTIO 436 select NET_FAILOVER 437 help 438 This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with 439 QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M. 440 441config NLMON 442 tristate "Virtual netlink monitoring device" 443 help 444 This option enables a monitoring net device for netlink skbs. The 445 purpose of this is to analyze netlink messages with packet sockets. 446 Thus applications like tcpdump will be able to see local netlink 447 messages if they tap into the netlink device, record pcaps for further 448 diagnostics, etc. This is mostly intended for developers or support 449 to debug netlink issues. If unsure, say N. 450 451config NETKIT 452 bool "BPF-programmable network device" 453 depends on BPF_SYSCALL 454 help 455 The netkit device is a virtual networking device where BPF programs 456 can be attached to the device(s) transmission routine in order to 457 implement the driver's internal logic. The device can be configured 458 to operate in L3 or L2 mode. If unsure, say N. 459 460config NET_VRF 461 tristate "Virtual Routing and Forwarding (Lite)" 462 depends on IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES 463 depends on NET_L3_MASTER_DEV 464 depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n 465 depends on IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES || IPV6=n 466 help 467 This option enables the support for mapping interfaces into VRF's. The 468 support enables VRF devices. 469 470config VSOCKMON 471 tristate "Virtual vsock monitoring device" 472 depends on VHOST_VSOCK 473 help 474 This option enables a monitoring net device for vsock sockets. It is 475 mostly intended for developers or support to debug vsock issues. If 476 unsure, say N. 477 478config MHI_NET 479 tristate "MHI network driver" 480 depends on MHI_BUS 481 help 482 This is the network driver for MHI bus. It can be used with 483 QCOM based WWAN modems for IP or QMAP/rmnet protocol (like SDX55). 484 Say Y or M. 485 486endif # NET_CORE 487 488config SUNGEM_PHY 489 tristate 490 491source "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig" 492 493source "drivers/atm/Kconfig" 494 495source "drivers/net/caif/Kconfig" 496 497source "drivers/net/dsa/Kconfig" 498 499source "drivers/net/ethernet/Kconfig" 500 501source "drivers/net/fddi/Kconfig" 502 503source "drivers/net/hippi/Kconfig" 504 505source "drivers/net/ipa/Kconfig" 506 507config NET_SB1000 508 tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000" 509 depends on PNP 510 help 511 This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as 512 NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal 513 cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable 514 TV companies to provide cable modem access. It's a one-way 515 downstream-only cable modem, meaning that your upstream net link is 516 provided by your regular phone modem. 517 518 At present this driver only compiles as a module, so say M here if 519 you have this card. The module will be called sb1000. Then read 520 <file:Documentation/networking/device_drivers/cable/sb1000.rst> for 521 information on how to use this module, as it needs special ppp 522 scripts for establishing a connection. Further documentation 523 and the necessary scripts can be found at: 524 525 <http://www.jacksonville.net/~fventuri/> 526 <http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/sb1000.html> 527 <http://linuxpower.cx/~cable/> 528 529 If you don't have this card, of course say N. 530 531source "drivers/net/phy/Kconfig" 532 533source "drivers/net/pse-pd/Kconfig" 534 535source "drivers/net/can/Kconfig" 536 537source "drivers/net/mctp/Kconfig" 538 539source "drivers/net/mdio/Kconfig" 540 541source "drivers/net/pcs/Kconfig" 542 543source "drivers/net/plip/Kconfig" 544 545source "drivers/net/ppp/Kconfig" 546 547source "drivers/net/slip/Kconfig" 548 549source "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig" 550 551source "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig" 552 553source "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig" 554 555source "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig" 556 557source "drivers/net/ieee802154/Kconfig" 558 559source "drivers/net/wwan/Kconfig" 560 561config XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND 562 tristate "Xen network device frontend driver" 563 depends on XEN 564 select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND 565 select PAGE_POOL 566 default y 567 help 568 This driver provides support for Xen paravirtual network 569 devices exported by a Xen network driver domain (often 570 domain 0). 571 572 The corresponding Linux backend driver is enabled by the 573 CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND option. 574 575 If you are compiling a kernel for use as Xen guest, you 576 should say Y here. To compile this driver as a module, chose 577 M here: the module will be called xen-netfront. 578 579config XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND 580 tristate "Xen backend network device" 581 depends on XEN_BACKEND 582 help 583 This driver allows the kernel to act as a Xen network driver 584 domain which exports paravirtual network devices to other 585 Xen domains. These devices can be accessed by any operating 586 system that implements a compatible front end. 587 588 The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the 589 CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND configuration option. 590 591 The backend driver presents a standard network device 592 endpoint for each paravirtual network device to the driver 593 domain network stack. These can then be bridged or routed 594 etc in order to provide full network connectivity. 595 596 If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen network driver 597 domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To 598 compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module 599 will be called xen-netback. 600 601config VMXNET3 602 tristate "VMware VMXNET3 ethernet driver" 603 depends on PCI && INET 604 depends on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_64KB 605 select PAGE_POOL 606 help 607 This driver supports VMware's vmxnet3 virtual ethernet NIC. 608 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 609 module will be called vmxnet3. 610 611config FUJITSU_ES 612 tristate "FUJITSU Extended Socket Network Device driver" 613 depends on ACPI 614 help 615 This driver provides support for Extended Socket network device 616 on Extended Partitioning of FUJITSU PRIMEQUEST 2000 E2 series. 617 618source "drivers/net/thunderbolt/Kconfig" 619source "drivers/net/hyperv/Kconfig" 620 621config NETDEVSIM 622 tristate "Simulated networking device" 623 depends on DEBUG_FS 624 depends on INET 625 depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n 626 depends on PSAMPLE || PSAMPLE=n 627 depends on PTP_1588_CLOCK_MOCK || PTP_1588_CLOCK_MOCK=n 628 select NET_DEVLINK 629 help 630 This driver is a developer testing tool and software model that can 631 be used to test various control path networking APIs, especially 632 HW-offload related. 633 634 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 635 will be called netdevsim. 636 637config NET_FAILOVER 638 tristate "Failover driver" 639 select FAILOVER 640 help 641 This provides an automated failover mechanism via APIs to create 642 and destroy a failover master netdev and manages a primary and 643 standby slave netdevs that get registered via the generic failover 644 infrastructure. This can be used by paravirtual drivers to enable 645 an alternate low latency datapath. It also enables live migration of 646 a VM with direct attached VF by failing over to the paravirtual 647 datapath when the VF is unplugged. 648 649config NETDEV_LEGACY_INIT 650 bool 651 depends on ISA 652 help 653 Drivers that call netdev_boot_setup_check() should select this 654 symbol, everything else no longer needs it. 655 656endif # NETDEVICES 657