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1 | # |
2 | # IP configuration | |
3 | # | |
4 | config IP_MULTICAST | |
5 | bool "IP: multicasting" | |
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6 | help |
7 | This is code for addressing several networked computers at once, | |
8 | enlarging your kernel by about 2 KB. You need multicasting if you | |
9 | intend to participate in the MBONE, a high bandwidth network on top | |
10 | of the Internet which carries audio and video broadcasts. More | |
11 | information about the MBONE is on the WWW at | |
936bb14c | 12 | <http://www.savetz.com/mbone/>. Information about the multicast |
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13 | capabilities of the various network cards is contained in |
14 | <file:Documentation/networking/multicast.txt>. For most people, it's | |
15 | safe to say N. | |
16 | ||
17 | config IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER | |
18 | bool "IP: advanced router" | |
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19 | ---help--- |
20 | If you intend to run your Linux box mostly as a router, i.e. as a | |
21 | computer that forwards and redistributes network packets, say Y; you | |
22 | will then be presented with several options that allow more precise | |
23 | control about the routing process. | |
24 | ||
25 | The answer to this question won't directly affect the kernel: | |
26 | answering N will just cause the configurator to skip all the | |
27 | questions about advanced routing. | |
28 | ||
29 | Note that your box can only act as a router if you enable IP | |
30 | forwarding in your kernel; you can do that by saying Y to "/proc | |
31 | file system support" and "Sysctl support" below and executing the | |
32 | line | |
33 | ||
34 | echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward | |
35 | ||
36 | at boot time after the /proc file system has been mounted. | |
37 | ||
b2cc46a8 | 38 | If you turn on IP forwarding, you should consider the rp_filter, which |
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39 | automatically rejects incoming packets if the routing table entry |
40 | for their source address doesn't match the network interface they're | |
41 | arriving on. This has security advantages because it prevents the | |
42 | so-called IP spoofing, however it can pose problems if you use | |
43 | asymmetric routing (packets from you to a host take a different path | |
44 | than packets from that host to you) or if you operate a non-routing | |
45 | host which has several IP addresses on different interfaces. To turn | |
d7394372 | 46 | rp_filter on use: |
1da177e4 | 47 | |
d7394372 | 48 | echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/<device>/rp_filter |
b2cc46a8 | 49 | and |
d7394372 | 50 | echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter |
1da177e4 | 51 | |
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52 | Note that some distributions enable it in startup scripts. |
53 | ||
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54 | If unsure, say N here. |
55 | ||
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56 | choice |
57 | prompt "Choose IP: FIB lookup algorithm (choose FIB_HASH if unsure)" | |
58 | depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER | |
6876f95f | 59 | default ASK_IP_FIB_HASH |
bb298ca3 | 60 | |
6876f95f | 61 | config ASK_IP_FIB_HASH |
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62 | bool "FIB_HASH" |
63 | ---help--- | |
64 | Current FIB is very proven and good enough for most users. | |
65 | ||
66 | config IP_FIB_TRIE | |
67 | bool "FIB_TRIE" | |
68 | ---help--- | |
44c09201 | 69 | Use new experimental LC-trie as FIB lookup algorithm. |
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70 | This improves lookup performance if you have a large |
71 | number of routes. | |
72 | ||
73 | LC-trie is a longest matching prefix lookup algorithm which | |
74 | performs better than FIB_HASH for large routing tables. | |
75 | But, it consumes more memory and is more complex. | |
76 | ||
77 | LC-trie is described in: | |
78 | ||
79 | IP-address lookup using LC-tries. Stefan Nilsson and Gunnar Karlsson | |
80 | IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 17(6):1083-1092, June 1999 | |
81 | An experimental study of compression methods for dynamic tries | |
82 | Stefan Nilsson and Matti Tikkanen. Algorithmica, 33(1):19-33, 2002. | |
83 | http://www.nada.kth.se/~snilsson/public/papers/dyntrie2/ | |
84 | ||
85 | endchoice | |
86 | ||
bb298ca3 | 87 | config IP_FIB_HASH |
6876f95f | 88 | def_bool ASK_IP_FIB_HASH || !IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER |
bb298ca3 | 89 | |
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90 | config IP_FIB_TRIE_STATS |
91 | bool "FIB TRIE statistics" | |
92 | depends on IP_FIB_TRIE | |
93 | ---help--- | |
94 | Keep track of statistics on structure of FIB TRIE table. | |
95 | Useful for testing and measuring TRIE performance. | |
96 | ||
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97 | config IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES |
98 | bool "IP: policy routing" | |
99 | depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER | |
e1ef4bf2 | 100 | select FIB_RULES |
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101 | ---help--- |
102 | Normally, a router decides what to do with a received packet based | |
103 | solely on the packet's final destination address. If you say Y here, | |
104 | the Linux router will also be able to take the packet's source | |
105 | address into account. Furthermore, the TOS (Type-Of-Service) field | |
106 | of the packet can be used for routing decisions as well. | |
107 | ||
108 | If you are interested in this, please see the preliminary | |
109 | documentation at <http://www.compendium.com.ar/policy-routing.txt> | |
110 | and <ftp://post.tepkom.ru/pub/vol2/Linux/docs/advanced-routing.tex>. | |
111 | You will need supporting software from | |
112 | <ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/net/ip-routing/>. | |
113 | ||
114 | If unsure, say N. | |
115 | ||
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116 | config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH |
117 | bool "IP: equal cost multipath" | |
118 | depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER | |
119 | help | |
120 | Normally, the routing tables specify a single action to be taken in | |
121 | a deterministic manner for a given packet. If you say Y here | |
122 | however, it becomes possible to attach several actions to a packet | |
123 | pattern, in effect specifying several alternative paths to travel | |
124 | for those packets. The router considers all these paths to be of | |
125 | equal "cost" and chooses one of them in a non-deterministic fashion | |
126 | if a matching packet arrives. | |
127 | ||
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128 | config IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE |
129 | bool "IP: verbose route monitoring" | |
130 | depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER | |
131 | help | |
132 | If you say Y here, which is recommended, then the kernel will print | |
133 | verbose messages regarding the routing, for example warnings about | |
134 | received packets which look strange and could be evidence of an | |
135 | attack or a misconfigured system somewhere. The information is | |
136 | handled by the klogd daemon which is responsible for kernel messages | |
137 | ("man klogd"). | |
138 | ||
139 | config IP_PNP | |
140 | bool "IP: kernel level autoconfiguration" | |
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141 | help |
142 | This enables automatic configuration of IP addresses of devices and | |
143 | of the routing table during kernel boot, based on either information | |
144 | supplied on the kernel command line or by BOOTP or RARP protocols. | |
145 | You need to say Y only for diskless machines requiring network | |
146 | access to boot (in which case you want to say Y to "Root file system | |
147 | on NFS" as well), because all other machines configure the network | |
148 | in their startup scripts. | |
149 | ||
150 | config IP_PNP_DHCP | |
151 | bool "IP: DHCP support" | |
152 | depends on IP_PNP | |
153 | ---help--- | |
154 | If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the | |
155 | one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the | |
156 | net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be | |
157 | discovered automatically at boot time using the DHCP protocol (a | |
158 | special protocol designed for doing this job), say Y here. In case | |
159 | the boot ROM of your network card was designed for booting Linux and | |
160 | does DHCP itself, providing all necessary information on the kernel | |
161 | command line, you can say N here. | |
162 | ||
163 | If unsure, say Y. Note that if you want to use DHCP, a DHCP server | |
164 | must be operating on your network. Read | |
6ded55da | 165 | <file:Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt> for details. |
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166 | |
167 | config IP_PNP_BOOTP | |
168 | bool "IP: BOOTP support" | |
169 | depends on IP_PNP | |
170 | ---help--- | |
171 | If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the | |
172 | one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the | |
173 | net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be | |
174 | discovered automatically at boot time using the BOOTP protocol (a | |
175 | special protocol designed for doing this job), say Y here. In case | |
176 | the boot ROM of your network card was designed for booting Linux and | |
177 | does BOOTP itself, providing all necessary information on the kernel | |
178 | command line, you can say N here. If unsure, say Y. Note that if you | |
179 | want to use BOOTP, a BOOTP server must be operating on your network. | |
6ded55da | 180 | Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt> for details. |
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181 | |
182 | config IP_PNP_RARP | |
183 | bool "IP: RARP support" | |
184 | depends on IP_PNP | |
185 | help | |
186 | If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the | |
187 | one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the | |
188 | net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be | |
189 | discovered automatically at boot time using the RARP protocol (an | |
190 | older protocol which is being obsoleted by BOOTP and DHCP), say Y | |
191 | here. Note that if you want to use RARP, a RARP server must be | |
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192 | operating on your network. Read |
193 | <file:Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt> for details. | |
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194 | |
195 | # not yet ready.. | |
196 | # bool ' IP: ARP support' CONFIG_IP_PNP_ARP | |
197 | config NET_IPIP | |
198 | tristate "IP: tunneling" | |
d2acc347 | 199 | select INET_TUNNEL |
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200 | ---help--- |
201 | Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within | |
202 | another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the | |
203 | encapsulating protocol. This particular tunneling driver implements | |
204 | encapsulation of IP within IP, which sounds kind of pointless, but | |
205 | can be useful if you want to make your (or some other) machine | |
206 | appear on a different network than it physically is, or to use | |
207 | mobile-IP facilities (allowing laptops to seamlessly move between | |
208 | networks without changing their IP addresses). | |
209 | ||
210 | Saying Y to this option will produce two modules ( = code which can | |
211 | be inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you | |
212 | want). Most people won't need this and can say N. | |
213 | ||
214 | config NET_IPGRE | |
215 | tristate "IP: GRE tunnels over IP" | |
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216 | help |
217 | Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within | |
218 | another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the | |
219 | encapsulating protocol. This particular tunneling driver implements | |
220 | GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) and at this time allows | |
221 | encapsulating of IPv4 or IPv6 over existing IPv4 infrastructure. | |
222 | This driver is useful if the other endpoint is a Cisco router: Cisco | |
223 | likes GRE much better than the other Linux tunneling driver ("IP | |
224 | tunneling" above). In addition, GRE allows multicast redistribution | |
225 | through the tunnel. | |
226 | ||
227 | config NET_IPGRE_BROADCAST | |
228 | bool "IP: broadcast GRE over IP" | |
229 | depends on IP_MULTICAST && NET_IPGRE | |
230 | help | |
231 | One application of GRE/IP is to construct a broadcast WAN (Wide Area | |
232 | Network), which looks like a normal Ethernet LAN (Local Area | |
233 | Network), but can be distributed all over the Internet. If you want | |
234 | to do that, say Y here and to "IP multicast routing" below. | |
235 | ||
236 | config IP_MROUTE | |
237 | bool "IP: multicast routing" | |
238 | depends on IP_MULTICAST | |
239 | help | |
240 | This is used if you want your machine to act as a router for IP | |
241 | packets that have several destination addresses. It is needed on the | |
242 | MBONE, a high bandwidth network on top of the Internet which carries | |
243 | audio and video broadcasts. In order to do that, you would most | |
244 | likely run the program mrouted. Information about the multicast | |
245 | capabilities of the various network cards is contained in | |
246 | <file:Documentation/networking/multicast.txt>. If you haven't heard | |
247 | about it, you don't need it. | |
248 | ||
249 | config IP_PIMSM_V1 | |
250 | bool "IP: PIM-SM version 1 support" | |
251 | depends on IP_MROUTE | |
252 | help | |
253 | Kernel side support for Sparse Mode PIM (Protocol Independent | |
254 | Multicast) version 1. This multicast routing protocol is used widely | |
255 | because Cisco supports it. You need special software to use it | |
256 | (pimd-v1). Please see <http://netweb.usc.edu/pim/> for more | |
257 | information about PIM. | |
258 | ||
259 | Say Y if you want to use PIM-SM v1. Note that you can say N here if | |
260 | you just want to use Dense Mode PIM. | |
261 | ||
262 | config IP_PIMSM_V2 | |
263 | bool "IP: PIM-SM version 2 support" | |
264 | depends on IP_MROUTE | |
265 | help | |
266 | Kernel side support for Sparse Mode PIM version 2. In order to use | |
267 | this, you need an experimental routing daemon supporting it (pimd or | |
268 | gated-5). This routing protocol is not used widely, so say N unless | |
269 | you want to play with it. | |
270 | ||
271 | config ARPD | |
272 | bool "IP: ARP daemon support (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
6a2e9b73 | 273 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL |
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274 | ---help--- |
275 | Normally, the kernel maintains an internal cache which maps IP | |
276 | addresses to hardware addresses on the local network, so that | |
277 | Ethernet/Token Ring/ etc. frames are sent to the proper address on | |
278 | the physical networking layer. For small networks having a few | |
279 | hundred directly connected hosts or less, keeping this address | |
280 | resolution (ARP) cache inside the kernel works well. However, | |
281 | maintaining an internal ARP cache does not work well for very large | |
282 | switched networks, and will use a lot of kernel memory if TCP/IP | |
283 | connections are made to many machines on the network. | |
284 | ||
285 | If you say Y here, the kernel's internal ARP cache will never grow | |
286 | to more than 256 entries (the oldest entries are expired in a LIFO | |
287 | manner) and communication will be attempted with the user space ARP | |
288 | daemon arpd. Arpd then answers the address resolution request either | |
289 | from its own cache or by asking the net. | |
290 | ||
291 | This code is experimental and also obsolete. If you want to use it, | |
292 | you need to find a version of the daemon arpd on the net somewhere, | |
293 | and you should also say Y to "Kernel/User network link driver", | |
294 | below. If unsure, say N. | |
295 | ||
296 | config SYN_COOKIES | |
297 | bool "IP: TCP syncookie support (disabled per default)" | |
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298 | ---help--- |
299 | Normal TCP/IP networking is open to an attack known as "SYN | |
300 | flooding". This denial-of-service attack prevents legitimate remote | |
301 | users from being able to connect to your computer during an ongoing | |
302 | attack and requires very little work from the attacker, who can | |
303 | operate from anywhere on the Internet. | |
304 | ||
305 | SYN cookies provide protection against this type of attack. If you | |
306 | say Y here, the TCP/IP stack will use a cryptographic challenge | |
307 | protocol known as "SYN cookies" to enable legitimate users to | |
308 | continue to connect, even when your machine is under attack. There | |
309 | is no need for the legitimate users to change their TCP/IP software; | |
310 | SYN cookies work transparently to them. For technical information | |
311 | about SYN cookies, check out <http://cr.yp.to/syncookies.html>. | |
312 | ||
313 | If you are SYN flooded, the source address reported by the kernel is | |
314 | likely to have been forged by the attacker; it is only reported as | |
315 | an aid in tracing the packets to their actual source and should not | |
316 | be taken as absolute truth. | |
317 | ||
318 | SYN cookies may prevent correct error reporting on clients when the | |
319 | server is really overloaded. If this happens frequently better turn | |
320 | them off. | |
321 | ||
322 | If you say Y here, note that SYN cookies aren't enabled by default; | |
323 | you can enable them by saying Y to "/proc file system support" and | |
324 | "Sysctl support" below and executing the command | |
325 | ||
326 | echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies | |
327 | ||
328 | at boot time after the /proc file system has been mounted. | |
329 | ||
330 | If unsure, say N. | |
331 | ||
332 | config INET_AH | |
333 | tristate "IP: AH transformation" | |
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334 | select XFRM |
335 | select CRYPTO | |
336 | select CRYPTO_HMAC | |
337 | select CRYPTO_MD5 | |
338 | select CRYPTO_SHA1 | |
339 | ---help--- | |
340 | Support for IPsec AH. | |
341 | ||
342 | If unsure, say Y. | |
343 | ||
344 | config INET_ESP | |
345 | tristate "IP: ESP transformation" | |
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346 | select XFRM |
347 | select CRYPTO | |
ed58dd41 | 348 | select CRYPTO_AUTHENC |
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349 | select CRYPTO_HMAC |
350 | select CRYPTO_MD5 | |
6b7326c8 | 351 | select CRYPTO_CBC |
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352 | select CRYPTO_SHA1 |
353 | select CRYPTO_DES | |
354 | ---help--- | |
355 | Support for IPsec ESP. | |
356 | ||
357 | If unsure, say Y. | |
358 | ||
359 | config INET_IPCOMP | |
360 | tristate "IP: IPComp transformation" | |
d2acc347 | 361 | select INET_XFRM_TUNNEL |
6fccab67 | 362 | select XFRM_IPCOMP |
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363 | ---help--- |
364 | Support for IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp) (RFC3173), | |
365 | typically needed for IPsec. | |
366 | ||
367 | If unsure, say Y. | |
368 | ||
d2acc347 HX |
369 | config INET_XFRM_TUNNEL |
370 | tristate | |
371 | select INET_TUNNEL | |
372 | default n | |
373 | ||
1da177e4 | 374 | config INET_TUNNEL |
d2acc347 HX |
375 | tristate |
376 | default n | |
1da177e4 | 377 | |
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378 | config INET_XFRM_MODE_TRANSPORT |
379 | tristate "IP: IPsec transport mode" | |
380 | default y | |
381 | select XFRM | |
382 | ---help--- | |
383 | Support for IPsec transport mode. | |
384 | ||
385 | If unsure, say Y. | |
386 | ||
387 | config INET_XFRM_MODE_TUNNEL | |
388 | tristate "IP: IPsec tunnel mode" | |
389 | default y | |
390 | select XFRM | |
391 | ---help--- | |
392 | Support for IPsec tunnel mode. | |
393 | ||
394 | If unsure, say Y. | |
395 | ||
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396 | config INET_XFRM_MODE_BEET |
397 | tristate "IP: IPsec BEET mode" | |
398 | default y | |
399 | select XFRM | |
400 | ---help--- | |
401 | Support for IPsec BEET mode. | |
402 | ||
403 | If unsure, say Y. | |
404 | ||
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405 | config INET_LRO |
406 | tristate "Large Receive Offload (ipv4/tcp)" | |
407 | ||
408 | ---help--- | |
409 | Support for Large Receive Offload (ipv4/tcp). | |
410 | ||
411 | If unsure, say Y. | |
412 | ||
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413 | config INET_DIAG |
414 | tristate "INET: socket monitoring interface" | |
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415 | default y |
416 | ---help--- | |
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417 | Support for INET (TCP, DCCP, etc) socket monitoring interface used by |
418 | native Linux tools such as ss. ss is included in iproute2, currently | |
f4b9479d | 419 | downloadable at <http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Iproute2>. |
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420 | |
421 | If unsure, say Y. | |
422 | ||
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423 | config INET_TCP_DIAG |
424 | depends on INET_DIAG | |
425 | def_tristate INET_DIAG | |
426 | ||
3d2573f7 | 427 | menuconfig TCP_CONG_ADVANCED |
a6484045 | 428 | bool "TCP: advanced congestion control" |
a6484045 DM |
429 | ---help--- |
430 | Support for selection of various TCP congestion control | |
431 | modules. | |
432 | ||
433 | Nearly all users can safely say no here, and a safe default | |
597811ec | 434 | selection will be made (CUBIC with new Reno as a fallback). |
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435 | |
436 | If unsure, say N. | |
437 | ||
3d2573f7 | 438 | if TCP_CONG_ADVANCED |
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439 | |
440 | config TCP_CONG_BIC | |
441 | tristate "Binary Increase Congestion (BIC) control" | |
597811ec | 442 | default m |
83803034 SH |
443 | ---help--- |
444 | BIC-TCP is a sender-side only change that ensures a linear RTT | |
445 | fairness under large windows while offering both scalability and | |
446 | bounded TCP-friendliness. The protocol combines two schemes | |
447 | called additive increase and binary search increase. When the | |
448 | congestion window is large, additive increase with a large | |
449 | increment ensures linear RTT fairness as well as good | |
450 | scalability. Under small congestion windows, binary search | |
451 | increase provides TCP friendliness. | |
452 | See http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/export/bitcp/ | |
453 | ||
df3271f3 SH |
454 | config TCP_CONG_CUBIC |
455 | tristate "CUBIC TCP" | |
597811ec | 456 | default y |
df3271f3 SH |
457 | ---help--- |
458 | This is version 2.0 of BIC-TCP which uses a cubic growth function | |
459 | among other techniques. | |
460 | See http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/export/bitcp/cubic-paper.pdf | |
461 | ||
87270762 SH |
462 | config TCP_CONG_WESTWOOD |
463 | tristate "TCP Westwood+" | |
87270762 SH |
464 | default m |
465 | ---help--- | |
466 | TCP Westwood+ is a sender-side only modification of the TCP Reno | |
467 | protocol stack that optimizes the performance of TCP congestion | |
468 | control. It is based on end-to-end bandwidth estimation to set | |
469 | congestion window and slow start threshold after a congestion | |
470 | episode. Using this estimation, TCP Westwood+ adaptively sets a | |
471 | slow start threshold and a congestion window which takes into | |
472 | account the bandwidth used at the time congestion is experienced. | |
473 | TCP Westwood+ significantly increases fairness wrt TCP Reno in | |
474 | wired networks and throughput over wireless links. | |
475 | ||
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476 | config TCP_CONG_HTCP |
477 | tristate "H-TCP" | |
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478 | default m |
479 | ---help--- | |
480 | H-TCP is a send-side only modifications of the TCP Reno | |
481 | protocol stack that optimizes the performance of TCP | |
482 | congestion control for high speed network links. It uses a | |
483 | modeswitch to change the alpha and beta parameters of TCP Reno | |
484 | based on network conditions and in a way so as to be fair with | |
485 | other Reno and H-TCP flows. | |
486 | ||
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487 | config TCP_CONG_HSTCP |
488 | tristate "High Speed TCP" | |
6a2e9b73 | 489 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL |
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490 | default n |
491 | ---help--- | |
492 | Sally Floyd's High Speed TCP (RFC 3649) congestion control. | |
493 | A modification to TCP's congestion control mechanism for use | |
494 | with large congestion windows. A table indicates how much to | |
495 | increase the congestion window by when an ACK is received. | |
496 | For more detail see http://www.icir.org/floyd/hstcp.html | |
497 | ||
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498 | config TCP_CONG_HYBLA |
499 | tristate "TCP-Hybla congestion control algorithm" | |
6a2e9b73 | 500 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL |
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501 | default n |
502 | ---help--- | |
503 | TCP-Hybla is a sender-side only change that eliminates penalization of | |
504 | long-RTT, large-bandwidth connections, like when satellite legs are | |
44c09201 | 505 | involved, especially when sharing a common bottleneck with normal |
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506 | terrestrial connections. |
507 | ||
b87d8561 SH |
508 | config TCP_CONG_VEGAS |
509 | tristate "TCP Vegas" | |
6a2e9b73 | 510 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL |
b87d8561 SH |
511 | default n |
512 | ---help--- | |
513 | TCP Vegas is a sender-side only change to TCP that anticipates | |
514 | the onset of congestion by estimating the bandwidth. TCP Vegas | |
515 | adjusts the sending rate by modifying the congestion | |
516 | window. TCP Vegas should provide less packet loss, but it is | |
517 | not as aggressive as TCP Reno. | |
518 | ||
0e57976b JH |
519 | config TCP_CONG_SCALABLE |
520 | tristate "Scalable TCP" | |
6a2e9b73 | 521 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL |
0e57976b JH |
522 | default n |
523 | ---help--- | |
524 | Scalable TCP is a sender-side only change to TCP which uses a | |
525 | MIMD congestion control algorithm which has some nice scaling | |
526 | properties, though is known to have fairness issues. | |
f4b9479d | 527 | See http://www.deneholme.net/tom/scalable/ |
a7868ea6 | 528 | |
7c106d7e WHSE |
529 | config TCP_CONG_LP |
530 | tristate "TCP Low Priority" | |
531 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL | |
532 | default n | |
533 | ---help--- | |
534 | TCP Low Priority (TCP-LP), a distributed algorithm whose goal is | |
cab00891 | 535 | to utilize only the excess network bandwidth as compared to the |
7c106d7e WHSE |
536 | ``fair share`` of bandwidth as targeted by TCP. |
537 | See http://www-ece.rice.edu/networks/TCP-LP/ | |
538 | ||
76f10177 BZ |
539 | config TCP_CONG_VENO |
540 | tristate "TCP Veno" | |
541 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL | |
542 | default n | |
543 | ---help--- | |
544 | TCP Veno is a sender-side only enhancement of TCP to obtain better | |
545 | throughput over wireless networks. TCP Veno makes use of state | |
546 | distinguishing to circumvent the difficult judgment of the packet loss | |
547 | type. TCP Veno cuts down less congestion window in response to random | |
548 | loss packets. | |
549 | See http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home5/ZHOU0022/papers/CPFu03a.pdf | |
550 | ||
5ef81475 AC |
551 | config TCP_CONG_YEAH |
552 | tristate "YeAH TCP" | |
553 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL | |
2ff011ef | 554 | select TCP_CONG_VEGAS |
5ef81475 AC |
555 | default n |
556 | ---help--- | |
557 | YeAH-TCP is a sender-side high-speed enabled TCP congestion control | |
558 | algorithm, which uses a mixed loss/delay approach to compute the | |
559 | congestion window. It's design goals target high efficiency, | |
560 | internal, RTT and Reno fairness, resilience to link loss while | |
561 | keeping network elements load as low as possible. | |
562 | ||
563 | For further details look here: | |
564 | http://wil.cs.caltech.edu/pfldnet2007/paper/YeAH_TCP.pdf | |
565 | ||
c462238d SH |
566 | config TCP_CONG_ILLINOIS |
567 | tristate "TCP Illinois" | |
568 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL | |
569 | default n | |
570 | ---help--- | |
01dd2fbf | 571 | TCP-Illinois is a sender-side modification of TCP Reno for |
c462238d SH |
572 | high speed long delay links. It uses round-trip-time to |
573 | adjust the alpha and beta parameters to achieve a higher average | |
574 | throughput and maintain fairness. | |
575 | ||
576 | For further details see: | |
577 | http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~shaoliu/tcpillinois/index.html | |
578 | ||
3d2573f7 SH |
579 | choice |
580 | prompt "Default TCP congestion control" | |
597811ec | 581 | default DEFAULT_CUBIC |
3d2573f7 SH |
582 | help |
583 | Select the TCP congestion control that will be used by default | |
584 | for all connections. | |
585 | ||
586 | config DEFAULT_BIC | |
587 | bool "Bic" if TCP_CONG_BIC=y | |
588 | ||
589 | config DEFAULT_CUBIC | |
590 | bool "Cubic" if TCP_CONG_CUBIC=y | |
591 | ||
592 | config DEFAULT_HTCP | |
593 | bool "Htcp" if TCP_CONG_HTCP=y | |
594 | ||
595 | config DEFAULT_VEGAS | |
596 | bool "Vegas" if TCP_CONG_VEGAS=y | |
597 | ||
598 | config DEFAULT_WESTWOOD | |
599 | bool "Westwood" if TCP_CONG_WESTWOOD=y | |
600 | ||
601 | config DEFAULT_RENO | |
602 | bool "Reno" | |
603 | ||
604 | endchoice | |
605 | ||
606 | endif | |
83803034 | 607 | |
597811ec | 608 | config TCP_CONG_CUBIC |
6c360767 | 609 | tristate |
a6484045 DM |
610 | depends on !TCP_CONG_ADVANCED |
611 | default y | |
612 | ||
3d2573f7 SH |
613 | config DEFAULT_TCP_CONG |
614 | string | |
615 | default "bic" if DEFAULT_BIC | |
616 | default "cubic" if DEFAULT_CUBIC | |
617 | default "htcp" if DEFAULT_HTCP | |
618 | default "vegas" if DEFAULT_VEGAS | |
619 | default "westwood" if DEFAULT_WESTWOOD | |
620 | default "reno" if DEFAULT_RENO | |
597811ec | 621 | default "cubic" |
3d2573f7 | 622 | |
cfb6eeb4 YH |
623 | config TCP_MD5SIG |
624 | bool "TCP: MD5 Signature Option support (RFC2385) (EXPERIMENTAL)" | |
625 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL | |
626 | select CRYPTO | |
627 | select CRYPTO_MD5 | |
628 | ---help--- | |
3dde6ad8 | 629 | RFC2385 specifies a method of giving MD5 protection to TCP sessions. |
cfb6eeb4 YH |
630 | Its main (only?) use is to protect BGP sessions between core routers |
631 | on the Internet. | |
632 | ||
633 | If unsure, say N. | |
634 |