1# 2# Network configuration 3# 4 5menuconfig NET 6 bool "Networking support" 7 select NLATTR 8 select GENERIC_NET_UTILS 9 select BPF 10 ---help--- 11 Unless you really know what you are doing, you should say Y here. 12 The reason is that some programs need kernel networking support even 13 when running on a stand-alone machine that isn't connected to any 14 other computer. 15 16 If you are upgrading from an older kernel, you 17 should consider updating your networking tools too because changes 18 in the kernel and the tools often go hand in hand. The tools are 19 contained in the package net-tools, the location and version number 20 of which are given in <file:Documentation/Changes>. 21 22 For a general introduction to Linux networking, it is highly 23 recommended to read the NET-HOWTO, available from 24 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 25 26if NET 27 28config WANT_COMPAT_NETLINK_MESSAGES 29 bool 30 help 31 This option can be selected by other options that need compat 32 netlink messages. 33 34config COMPAT_NETLINK_MESSAGES 35 def_bool y 36 depends on COMPAT 37 depends on WEXT_CORE || WANT_COMPAT_NETLINK_MESSAGES 38 help 39 This option makes it possible to send different netlink messages 40 to tasks depending on whether the task is a compat task or not. To 41 achieve this, you need to set skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list to the 42 compat skb before sending the skb, the netlink code will sort out 43 which message to actually pass to the task. 44 45 Newly written code should NEVER need this option but do 46 compat-independent messages instead! 47 48config NET_INGRESS 49 bool 50 51config NET_EGRESS 52 bool 53 54menu "Networking options" 55 56source "net/packet/Kconfig" 57source "net/unix/Kconfig" 58source "net/xfrm/Kconfig" 59source "net/iucv/Kconfig" 60 61config INET 62 bool "TCP/IP networking" 63 select CRYPTO 64 select CRYPTO_AES 65 ---help--- 66 These are the protocols used on the Internet and on most local 67 Ethernets. It is highly recommended to say Y here (this will enlarge 68 your kernel by about 400 KB), since some programs (e.g. the X window 69 system) use TCP/IP even if your machine is not connected to any 70 other computer. You will get the so-called loopback device which 71 allows you to ping yourself (great fun, that!). 72 73 For an excellent introduction to Linux networking, please read the 74 Linux Networking HOWTO, available from 75 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 76 77 If you say Y here and also to "/proc file system support" and 78 "Sysctl support" below, you can change various aspects of the 79 behavior of the TCP/IP code by writing to the (virtual) files in 80 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/*; the options are explained in the file 81 <file:Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt>. 82 83 Short answer: say Y. 84 85if INET 86source "net/ipv4/Kconfig" 87source "net/ipv6/Kconfig" 88source "net/netlabel/Kconfig" 89 90endif # if INET 91 92config NETWORK_SECMARK 93 bool "Security Marking" 94 help 95 This enables security marking of network packets, similar 96 to nfmark, but designated for security purposes. 97 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 98 99config NET_PTP_CLASSIFY 100 def_bool n 101 102config NETWORK_PHY_TIMESTAMPING 103 bool "Timestamping in PHY devices" 104 select NET_PTP_CLASSIFY 105 help 106 This allows timestamping of network packets by PHYs with 107 hardware timestamping capabilities. This option adds some 108 overhead in the transmit and receive paths. 109 110 If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N. 111 112menuconfig NETFILTER 113 bool "Network packet filtering framework (Netfilter)" 114 ---help--- 115 Netfilter is a framework for filtering and mangling network packets 116 that pass through your Linux box. 117 118 The most common use of packet filtering is to run your Linux box as 119 a firewall protecting a local network from the Internet. The type of 120 firewall provided by this kernel support is called a "packet 121 filter", which means that it can reject individual network packets 122 based on type, source, destination etc. The other kind of firewall, 123 a "proxy-based" one, is more secure but more intrusive and more 124 bothersome to set up; it inspects the network traffic much more 125 closely, modifies it and has knowledge about the higher level 126 protocols, which a packet filter lacks. Moreover, proxy-based 127 firewalls often require changes to the programs running on the local 128 clients. Proxy-based firewalls don't need support by the kernel, but 129 they are often combined with a packet filter, which only works if 130 you say Y here. 131 132 You should also say Y here if you intend to use your Linux box as 133 the gateway to the Internet for a local network of machines without 134 globally valid IP addresses. This is called "masquerading": if one 135 of the computers on your local network wants to send something to 136 the outside, your box can "masquerade" as that computer, i.e. it 137 forwards the traffic to the intended outside destination, but 138 modifies the packets to make it look like they came from the 139 firewall box itself. It works both ways: if the outside host 140 replies, the Linux box will silently forward the traffic to the 141 correct local computer. This way, the computers on your local net 142 are completely invisible to the outside world, even though they can 143 reach the outside and can receive replies. It is even possible to 144 run globally visible servers from within a masqueraded local network 145 using a mechanism called portforwarding. Masquerading is also often 146 called NAT (Network Address Translation). 147 148 Another use of Netfilter is in transparent proxying: if a machine on 149 the local network tries to connect to an outside host, your Linux 150 box can transparently forward the traffic to a local server, 151 typically a caching proxy server. 152 153 Yet another use of Netfilter is building a bridging firewall. Using 154 a bridge with Network packet filtering enabled makes iptables "see" 155 the bridged traffic. For filtering on the lower network and Ethernet 156 protocols over the bridge, use ebtables (under bridge netfilter 157 configuration). 158 159 Various modules exist for netfilter which replace the previous 160 masquerading (ipmasqadm), packet filtering (ipchains), transparent 161 proxying, and portforwarding mechanisms. Please see 162 <file:Documentation/Changes> under "iptables" for the location of 163 these packages. 164 165if NETFILTER 166 167config NETFILTER_DEBUG 168 bool "Network packet filtering debugging" 169 depends on NETFILTER 170 help 171 You can say Y here if you want to get additional messages useful in 172 debugging the netfilter code. 173 174config NETFILTER_ADVANCED 175 bool "Advanced netfilter configuration" 176 depends on NETFILTER 177 default y 178 help 179 If you say Y here you can select between all the netfilter modules. 180 If you say N the more unusual ones will not be shown and the 181 basic ones needed by most people will default to 'M'. 182 183 If unsure, say Y. 184 185config BRIDGE_NETFILTER 186 tristate "Bridged IP/ARP packets filtering" 187 depends on BRIDGE 188 depends on NETFILTER && INET 189 depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED 190 default m 191 ---help--- 192 Enabling this option will let arptables resp. iptables see bridged 193 ARP resp. IP traffic. If you want a bridging firewall, you probably 194 want this option enabled. 195 Enabling or disabling this option doesn't enable or disable 196 ebtables. 197 198 If unsure, say N. 199 200source "net/netfilter/Kconfig" 201source "net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig" 202source "net/ipv6/netfilter/Kconfig" 203source "net/decnet/netfilter/Kconfig" 204source "net/bridge/netfilter/Kconfig" 205 206endif 207 208source "net/dccp/Kconfig" 209source "net/sctp/Kconfig" 210source "net/rds/Kconfig" 211source "net/tipc/Kconfig" 212source "net/atm/Kconfig" 213source "net/l2tp/Kconfig" 214source "net/802/Kconfig" 215source "net/bridge/Kconfig" 216source "net/dsa/Kconfig" 217source "net/8021q/Kconfig" 218source "net/decnet/Kconfig" 219source "net/llc/Kconfig" 220source "net/ipx/Kconfig" 221source "drivers/net/appletalk/Kconfig" 222source "net/x25/Kconfig" 223source "net/lapb/Kconfig" 224source "net/phonet/Kconfig" 225source "net/6lowpan/Kconfig" 226source "net/ieee802154/Kconfig" 227source "net/mac802154/Kconfig" 228source "net/sched/Kconfig" 229source "net/dcb/Kconfig" 230source "net/dns_resolver/Kconfig" 231source "net/batman-adv/Kconfig" 232source "net/openvswitch/Kconfig" 233source "net/vmw_vsock/Kconfig" 234source "net/netlink/Kconfig" 235source "net/mpls/Kconfig" 236source "net/hsr/Kconfig" 237source "net/switchdev/Kconfig" 238source "net/l3mdev/Kconfig" 239source "net/qrtr/Kconfig" 240source "net/ncsi/Kconfig" 241 242config RPS 243 bool 244 depends on SMP && SYSFS 245 default y 246 247config RFS_ACCEL 248 bool 249 depends on RPS 250 select CPU_RMAP 251 default y 252 253config XPS 254 bool 255 depends on SMP 256 default y 257 258config HWBM 259 bool 260 261config SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 262 bool 263 default n 264 265config CGROUP_NET_PRIO 266 bool "Network priority cgroup" 267 depends on CGROUPS 268 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 269 ---help--- 270 Cgroup subsystem for use in assigning processes to network priorities on 271 a per-interface basis. 272 273config CGROUP_NET_CLASSID 274 bool "Network classid cgroup" 275 depends on CGROUPS 276 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA 277 ---help--- 278 Cgroup subsystem for use as general purpose socket classid marker that is 279 being used in cls_cgroup and for netfilter matching. 280 281config NET_RX_BUSY_POLL 282 bool 283 default y 284 285config BQL 286 bool 287 depends on SYSFS 288 select DQL 289 default y 290 291config BPF_JIT 292 bool "enable BPF Just In Time compiler" 293 depends on HAVE_CBPF_JIT || HAVE_EBPF_JIT 294 depends on MODULES 295 ---help--- 296 Berkeley Packet Filter filtering capabilities are normally handled 297 by an interpreter. This option allows kernel to generate a native 298 code when filter is loaded in memory. This should speedup 299 packet sniffing (libpcap/tcpdump). 300 301 Note, admin should enable this feature changing: 302 /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable 303 /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_harden (optional) 304 305config NET_FLOW_LIMIT 306 bool 307 depends on RPS 308 default y 309 ---help--- 310 The network stack has to drop packets when a receive processing CPU's 311 backlog reaches netdev_max_backlog. If a few out of many active flows 312 generate the vast majority of load, drop their traffic earlier to 313 maintain capacity for the other flows. This feature provides servers 314 with many clients some protection against DoS by a single (spoofed) 315 flow that greatly exceeds average workload. 316 317menu "Network testing" 318 319config NET_PKTGEN 320 tristate "Packet Generator (USE WITH CAUTION)" 321 depends on INET && PROC_FS 322 ---help--- 323 This module will inject preconfigured packets, at a configurable 324 rate, out of a given interface. It is used for network interface 325 stress testing and performance analysis. If you don't understand 326 what was just said, you don't need it: say N. 327 328 Documentation on how to use the packet generator can be found 329 at <file:Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt>. 330 331 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the 332 module will be called pktgen. 333 334config NET_TCPPROBE 335 tristate "TCP connection probing" 336 depends on INET && PROC_FS && KPROBES 337 ---help--- 338 This module allows for capturing the changes to TCP connection 339 state in response to incoming packets. It is used for debugging 340 TCP congestion avoidance modules. If you don't understand 341 what was just said, you don't need it: say N. 342 343 Documentation on how to use TCP connection probing can be found 344 at: 345 346 http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/tcpprobe 347 348 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the 349 module will be called tcp_probe. 350 351config NET_DROP_MONITOR 352 tristate "Network packet drop alerting service" 353 depends on INET && TRACEPOINTS 354 ---help--- 355 This feature provides an alerting service to userspace in the 356 event that packets are discarded in the network stack. Alerts 357 are broadcast via netlink socket to any listening user space 358 process. If you don't need network drop alerts, or if you are ok 359 just checking the various proc files and other utilities for 360 drop statistics, say N here. 361 362endmenu 363 364endmenu 365 366source "net/ax25/Kconfig" 367source "net/can/Kconfig" 368source "net/irda/Kconfig" 369source "net/bluetooth/Kconfig" 370source "net/rxrpc/Kconfig" 371source "net/kcm/Kconfig" 372source "net/strparser/Kconfig" 373 374config FIB_RULES 375 bool 376 377menuconfig WIRELESS 378 bool "Wireless" 379 depends on !S390 380 default y 381 382if WIRELESS 383 384source "net/wireless/Kconfig" 385source "net/mac80211/Kconfig" 386 387endif # WIRELESS 388 389source "net/wimax/Kconfig" 390 391source "net/rfkill/Kconfig" 392source "net/9p/Kconfig" 393source "net/caif/Kconfig" 394source "net/ceph/Kconfig" 395source "net/nfc/Kconfig" 396 397config LWTUNNEL 398 bool "Network light weight tunnels" 399 ---help--- 400 This feature provides an infrastructure to support light weight 401 tunnels like mpls. There is no netdevice associated with a light 402 weight tunnel endpoint. Tunnel encapsulation parameters are stored 403 with light weight tunnel state associated with fib routes. 404 405config DST_CACHE 406 bool 407 default n 408 409config NET_DEVLINK 410 tristate "Network physical/parent device Netlink interface" 411 help 412 Network physical/parent device Netlink interface provides 413 infrastructure to support access to physical chip-wide config and 414 monitoring. 415 416config MAY_USE_DEVLINK 417 tristate 418 default m if NET_DEVLINK=m 419 default y if NET_DEVLINK=y || NET_DEVLINK=n 420 help 421 Drivers using the devlink infrastructure should have a dependency 422 on MAY_USE_DEVLINK to ensure they do not cause link errors when 423 devlink is a loadable module and the driver using it is built-in. 424 425endif # if NET 426 427# Used by archs to tell that they support BPF JIT compiler plus which flavour. 428# Only one of the two can be selected for a specific arch since eBPF JIT supersedes 429# the cBPF JIT. 430 431# Classic BPF JIT (cBPF) 432config HAVE_CBPF_JIT 433 bool 434 435# Extended BPF JIT (eBPF) 436config HAVE_EBPF_JIT 437 bool 438