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1 #
2 # IP configuration
3 #
4 config IP_MULTICAST
5 bool "IP: multicasting"
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
12 <http://www.savetz.com/mbone/>. Information about the multicast
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"
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
38 If you turn on IP forwarding, you should consider the rp_filter, which
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
46 rp_filter on use:
47
48 echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/<device>/rp_filter
49 or
50 echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
51
52 Note that some distributions enable it in startup scripts.
53 For details about rp_filter strict and loose mode read
54 <file:Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt>.
55
56 If unsure, say N here.
57
58 config IP_FIB_TRIE_STATS
59 bool "FIB TRIE statistics"
60 depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
61 ---help---
62 Keep track of statistics on structure of FIB TRIE table.
63 Useful for testing and measuring TRIE performance.
64
65 config IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES
66 bool "IP: policy routing"
67 depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
68 select FIB_RULES
69 ---help---
70 Normally, a router decides what to do with a received packet based
71 solely on the packet's final destination address. If you say Y here,
72 the Linux router will also be able to take the packet's source
73 address into account. Furthermore, the TOS (Type-Of-Service) field
74 of the packet can be used for routing decisions as well.
75
76 If you are interested in this, please see the preliminary
77 documentation at <http://www.compendium.com.ar/policy-routing.txt>
78 and <ftp://post.tepkom.ru/pub/vol2/Linux/docs/advanced-routing.tex>.
79 You will need supporting software from
80 <ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/net/ip-routing/>.
81
82 If unsure, say N.
83
84 config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH
85 bool "IP: equal cost multipath"
86 depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
87 help
88 Normally, the routing tables specify a single action to be taken in
89 a deterministic manner for a given packet. If you say Y here
90 however, it becomes possible to attach several actions to a packet
91 pattern, in effect specifying several alternative paths to travel
92 for those packets. The router considers all these paths to be of
93 equal "cost" and chooses one of them in a non-deterministic fashion
94 if a matching packet arrives.
95
96 config IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE
97 bool "IP: verbose route monitoring"
98 depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
99 help
100 If you say Y here, which is recommended, then the kernel will print
101 verbose messages regarding the routing, for example warnings about
102 received packets which look strange and could be evidence of an
103 attack or a misconfigured system somewhere. The information is
104 handled by the klogd daemon which is responsible for kernel messages
105 ("man klogd").
106
107 config IP_ROUTE_CLASSID
108 bool
109
110 config IP_PNP
111 bool "IP: kernel level autoconfiguration"
112 help
113 This enables automatic configuration of IP addresses of devices and
114 of the routing table during kernel boot, based on either information
115 supplied on the kernel command line or by BOOTP or RARP protocols.
116 You need to say Y only for diskless machines requiring network
117 access to boot (in which case you want to say Y to "Root file system
118 on NFS" as well), because all other machines configure the network
119 in their startup scripts.
120
121 config IP_PNP_DHCP
122 bool "IP: DHCP support"
123 depends on IP_PNP
124 ---help---
125 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
126 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
127 net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be
128 discovered automatically at boot time using the DHCP protocol (a
129 special protocol designed for doing this job), say Y here. In case
130 the boot ROM of your network card was designed for booting Linux and
131 does DHCP itself, providing all necessary information on the kernel
132 command line, you can say N here.
133
134 If unsure, say Y. Note that if you want to use DHCP, a DHCP server
135 must be operating on your network. Read
136 <file:Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt> for details.
137
138 config IP_PNP_BOOTP
139 bool "IP: BOOTP support"
140 depends on IP_PNP
141 ---help---
142 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
143 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
144 net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be
145 discovered automatically at boot time using the BOOTP protocol (a
146 special protocol designed for doing this job), say Y here. In case
147 the boot ROM of your network card was designed for booting Linux and
148 does BOOTP itself, providing all necessary information on the kernel
149 command line, you can say N here. If unsure, say Y. Note that if you
150 want to use BOOTP, a BOOTP server must be operating on your network.
151 Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt> for details.
152
153 config IP_PNP_RARP
154 bool "IP: RARP support"
155 depends on IP_PNP
156 help
157 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
158 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
159 net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be
160 discovered automatically at boot time using the RARP protocol (an
161 older protocol which is being obsoleted by BOOTP and DHCP), say Y
162 here. Note that if you want to use RARP, a RARP server must be
163 operating on your network. Read
164 <file:Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt> for details.
165
166 config NET_IPIP
167 tristate "IP: tunneling"
168 select INET_TUNNEL
169 ---help---
170 Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within
171 another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
172 encapsulating protocol. This particular tunneling driver implements
173 encapsulation of IP within IP, which sounds kind of pointless, but
174 can be useful if you want to make your (or some other) machine
175 appear on a different network than it physically is, or to use
176 mobile-IP facilities (allowing laptops to seamlessly move between
177 networks without changing their IP addresses).
178
179 Saying Y to this option will produce two modules ( = code which can
180 be inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you
181 want). Most people won't need this and can say N.
182
183 config NET_IPGRE_DEMUX
184 tristate "IP: GRE demultiplexer"
185 help
186 This is helper module to demultiplex GRE packets on GRE version field criteria.
187 Required by ip_gre and pptp modules.
188
189 config NET_IPGRE
190 tristate "IP: GRE tunnels over IP"
191 depends on (IPV6 || IPV6=n) && NET_IPGRE_DEMUX
192 help
193 Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within
194 another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
195 encapsulating protocol. This particular tunneling driver implements
196 GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) and at this time allows
197 encapsulating of IPv4 or IPv6 over existing IPv4 infrastructure.
198 This driver is useful if the other endpoint is a Cisco router: Cisco
199 likes GRE much better than the other Linux tunneling driver ("IP
200 tunneling" above). In addition, GRE allows multicast redistribution
201 through the tunnel.
202
203 config NET_IPGRE_BROADCAST
204 bool "IP: broadcast GRE over IP"
205 depends on IP_MULTICAST && NET_IPGRE
206 help
207 One application of GRE/IP is to construct a broadcast WAN (Wide Area
208 Network), which looks like a normal Ethernet LAN (Local Area
209 Network), but can be distributed all over the Internet. If you want
210 to do that, say Y here and to "IP multicast routing" below.
211
212 config IP_MROUTE
213 bool "IP: multicast routing"
214 depends on IP_MULTICAST
215 help
216 This is used if you want your machine to act as a router for IP
217 packets that have several destination addresses. It is needed on the
218 MBONE, a high bandwidth network on top of the Internet which carries
219 audio and video broadcasts. In order to do that, you would most
220 likely run the program mrouted. Information about the multicast
221 capabilities of the various network cards is contained in
222 <file:Documentation/networking/multicast.txt>. If you haven't heard
223 about it, you don't need it.
224
225 config IP_MROUTE_MULTIPLE_TABLES
226 bool "IP: multicast policy routing"
227 depends on IP_MROUTE && IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
228 select FIB_RULES
229 help
230 Normally, a multicast router runs a userspace daemon and decides
231 what to do with a multicast packet based on the source and
232 destination addresses. If you say Y here, the multicast router
233 will also be able to take interfaces and packet marks into
234 account and run multiple instances of userspace daemons
235 simultaneously, each one handling a single table.
236
237 If unsure, say N.
238
239 config IP_PIMSM_V1
240 bool "IP: PIM-SM version 1 support"
241 depends on IP_MROUTE
242 help
243 Kernel side support for Sparse Mode PIM (Protocol Independent
244 Multicast) version 1. This multicast routing protocol is used widely
245 because Cisco supports it. You need special software to use it
246 (pimd-v1). Please see <http://netweb.usc.edu/pim/> for more
247 information about PIM.
248
249 Say Y if you want to use PIM-SM v1. Note that you can say N here if
250 you just want to use Dense Mode PIM.
251
252 config IP_PIMSM_V2
253 bool "IP: PIM-SM version 2 support"
254 depends on IP_MROUTE
255 help
256 Kernel side support for Sparse Mode PIM version 2. In order to use
257 this, you need an experimental routing daemon supporting it (pimd or
258 gated-5). This routing protocol is not used widely, so say N unless
259 you want to play with it.
260
261 config ARPD
262 bool "IP: ARP daemon support"
263 ---help---
264 The kernel maintains an internal cache which maps IP addresses to
265 hardware addresses on the local network, so that Ethernet
266 frames are sent to the proper address on the physical networking
267 layer. Normally, kernel uses the ARP protocol to resolve these
268 mappings.
269
270 Saying Y here adds support to have an user space daemon to do this
271 resolution instead. This is useful for implementing an alternate
272 address resolution protocol (e.g. NHRP on mGRE tunnels) and also for
273 testing purposes.
274
275 If unsure, say N.
276
277 config SYN_COOKIES
278 bool "IP: TCP syncookie support"
279 ---help---
280 Normal TCP/IP networking is open to an attack known as "SYN
281 flooding". This denial-of-service attack prevents legitimate remote
282 users from being able to connect to your computer during an ongoing
283 attack and requires very little work from the attacker, who can
284 operate from anywhere on the Internet.
285
286 SYN cookies provide protection against this type of attack. If you
287 say Y here, the TCP/IP stack will use a cryptographic challenge
288 protocol known as "SYN cookies" to enable legitimate users to
289 continue to connect, even when your machine is under attack. There
290 is no need for the legitimate users to change their TCP/IP software;
291 SYN cookies work transparently to them. For technical information
292 about SYN cookies, check out <http://cr.yp.to/syncookies.html>.
293
294 If you are SYN flooded, the source address reported by the kernel is
295 likely to have been forged by the attacker; it is only reported as
296 an aid in tracing the packets to their actual source and should not
297 be taken as absolute truth.
298
299 SYN cookies may prevent correct error reporting on clients when the
300 server is really overloaded. If this happens frequently better turn
301 them off.
302
303 If you say Y here, you can disable SYN cookies at run time by
304 saying Y to "/proc file system support" and
305 "Sysctl support" below and executing the command
306
307 echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies
308
309 after the /proc file system has been mounted.
310
311 If unsure, say N.
312
313 config NET_IPVTI
314 tristate "Virtual (secure) IP: tunneling"
315 select INET_TUNNEL
316 depends on INET_XFRM_MODE_TUNNEL
317 ---help---
318 Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within
319 another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
320 encapsulating protocol. This can be used with xfrm mode tunnel to give
321 the notion of a secure tunnel for IPSEC and then use routing protocol
322 on top.
323
324 config INET_AH
325 tristate "IP: AH transformation"
326 select XFRM_ALGO
327 select CRYPTO
328 select CRYPTO_HMAC
329 select CRYPTO_MD5
330 select CRYPTO_SHA1
331 ---help---
332 Support for IPsec AH.
333
334 If unsure, say Y.
335
336 config INET_ESP
337 tristate "IP: ESP transformation"
338 select XFRM_ALGO
339 select CRYPTO
340 select CRYPTO_AUTHENC
341 select CRYPTO_HMAC
342 select CRYPTO_MD5
343 select CRYPTO_CBC
344 select CRYPTO_SHA1
345 select CRYPTO_DES
346 ---help---
347 Support for IPsec ESP.
348
349 If unsure, say Y.
350
351 config INET_IPCOMP
352 tristate "IP: IPComp transformation"
353 select INET_XFRM_TUNNEL
354 select XFRM_IPCOMP
355 ---help---
356 Support for IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp) (RFC3173),
357 typically needed for IPsec.
358
359 If unsure, say Y.
360
361 config INET_XFRM_TUNNEL
362 tristate
363 select INET_TUNNEL
364 default n
365
366 config INET_TUNNEL
367 tristate
368 default n
369
370 config INET_XFRM_MODE_TRANSPORT
371 tristate "IP: IPsec transport mode"
372 default y
373 select XFRM
374 ---help---
375 Support for IPsec transport mode.
376
377 If unsure, say Y.
378
379 config INET_XFRM_MODE_TUNNEL
380 tristate "IP: IPsec tunnel mode"
381 default y
382 select XFRM
383 ---help---
384 Support for IPsec tunnel mode.
385
386 If unsure, say Y.
387
388 config INET_XFRM_MODE_BEET
389 tristate "IP: IPsec BEET mode"
390 default y
391 select XFRM
392 ---help---
393 Support for IPsec BEET mode.
394
395 If unsure, say Y.
396
397 config INET_LRO
398 tristate "Large Receive Offload (ipv4/tcp)"
399 default y
400 ---help---
401 Support for Large Receive Offload (ipv4/tcp).
402
403 If unsure, say Y.
404
405 config INET_DIAG
406 tristate "INET: socket monitoring interface"
407 default y
408 ---help---
409 Support for INET (TCP, DCCP, etc) socket monitoring interface used by
410 native Linux tools such as ss. ss is included in iproute2, currently
411 downloadable at:
412
413 http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/iproute2
414
415 If unsure, say Y.
416
417 config INET_TCP_DIAG
418 depends on INET_DIAG
419 def_tristate INET_DIAG
420
421 config INET_UDP_DIAG
422 tristate "UDP: socket monitoring interface"
423 depends on INET_DIAG && (IPV6 || IPV6=n)
424 default n
425 ---help---
426 Support for UDP socket monitoring interface used by the ss tool.
427 If unsure, say Y.
428
429 menuconfig TCP_CONG_ADVANCED
430 bool "TCP: advanced congestion control"
431 ---help---
432 Support for selection of various TCP congestion control
433 modules.
434
435 Nearly all users can safely say no here, and a safe default
436 selection will be made (CUBIC with new Reno as a fallback).
437
438 If unsure, say N.
439
440 if TCP_CONG_ADVANCED
441
442 config TCP_CONG_BIC
443 tristate "Binary Increase Congestion (BIC) control"
444 default m
445 ---help---
446 BIC-TCP is a sender-side only change that ensures a linear RTT
447 fairness under large windows while offering both scalability and
448 bounded TCP-friendliness. The protocol combines two schemes
449 called additive increase and binary search increase. When the
450 congestion window is large, additive increase with a large
451 increment ensures linear RTT fairness as well as good
452 scalability. Under small congestion windows, binary search
453 increase provides TCP friendliness.
454 See http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/export/bitcp/
455
456 config TCP_CONG_CUBIC
457 tristate "CUBIC TCP"
458 default y
459 ---help---
460 This is version 2.0 of BIC-TCP which uses a cubic growth function
461 among other techniques.
462 See http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/export/bitcp/cubic-paper.pdf
463
464 config TCP_CONG_WESTWOOD
465 tristate "TCP Westwood+"
466 default m
467 ---help---
468 TCP Westwood+ is a sender-side only modification of the TCP Reno
469 protocol stack that optimizes the performance of TCP congestion
470 control. It is based on end-to-end bandwidth estimation to set
471 congestion window and slow start threshold after a congestion
472 episode. Using this estimation, TCP Westwood+ adaptively sets a
473 slow start threshold and a congestion window which takes into
474 account the bandwidth used at the time congestion is experienced.
475 TCP Westwood+ significantly increases fairness wrt TCP Reno in
476 wired networks and throughput over wireless links.
477
478 config TCP_CONG_HTCP
479 tristate "H-TCP"
480 default m
481 ---help---
482 H-TCP is a send-side only modifications of the TCP Reno
483 protocol stack that optimizes the performance of TCP
484 congestion control for high speed network links. It uses a
485 modeswitch to change the alpha and beta parameters of TCP Reno
486 based on network conditions and in a way so as to be fair with
487 other Reno and H-TCP flows.
488
489 config TCP_CONG_HSTCP
490 tristate "High Speed TCP"
491 default n
492 ---help---
493 Sally Floyd's High Speed TCP (RFC 3649) congestion control.
494 A modification to TCP's congestion control mechanism for use
495 with large congestion windows. A table indicates how much to
496 increase the congestion window by when an ACK is received.
497 For more detail see http://www.icir.org/floyd/hstcp.html
498
499 config TCP_CONG_HYBLA
500 tristate "TCP-Hybla congestion control algorithm"
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
505 involved, especially when sharing a common bottleneck with normal
506 terrestrial connections.
507
508 config TCP_CONG_VEGAS
509 tristate "TCP Vegas"
510 default n
511 ---help---
512 TCP Vegas is a sender-side only change to TCP that anticipates
513 the onset of congestion by estimating the bandwidth. TCP Vegas
514 adjusts the sending rate by modifying the congestion
515 window. TCP Vegas should provide less packet loss, but it is
516 not as aggressive as TCP Reno.
517
518 config TCP_CONG_SCALABLE
519 tristate "Scalable TCP"
520 default n
521 ---help---
522 Scalable TCP is a sender-side only change to TCP which uses a
523 MIMD congestion control algorithm which has some nice scaling
524 properties, though is known to have fairness issues.
525 See http://www.deneholme.net/tom/scalable/
526
527 config TCP_CONG_LP
528 tristate "TCP Low Priority"
529 default n
530 ---help---
531 TCP Low Priority (TCP-LP), a distributed algorithm whose goal is
532 to utilize only the excess network bandwidth as compared to the
533 ``fair share`` of bandwidth as targeted by TCP.
534 See http://www-ece.rice.edu/networks/TCP-LP/
535
536 config TCP_CONG_VENO
537 tristate "TCP Veno"
538 default n
539 ---help---
540 TCP Veno is a sender-side only enhancement of TCP to obtain better
541 throughput over wireless networks. TCP Veno makes use of state
542 distinguishing to circumvent the difficult judgment of the packet loss
543 type. TCP Veno cuts down less congestion window in response to random
544 loss packets.
545 See <http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1177186>
546
547 config TCP_CONG_YEAH
548 tristate "YeAH TCP"
549 select TCP_CONG_VEGAS
550 default n
551 ---help---
552 YeAH-TCP is a sender-side high-speed enabled TCP congestion control
553 algorithm, which uses a mixed loss/delay approach to compute the
554 congestion window. It's design goals target high efficiency,
555 internal, RTT and Reno fairness, resilience to link loss while
556 keeping network elements load as low as possible.
557
558 For further details look here:
559 http://wil.cs.caltech.edu/pfldnet2007/paper/YeAH_TCP.pdf
560
561 config TCP_CONG_ILLINOIS
562 tristate "TCP Illinois"
563 default n
564 ---help---
565 TCP-Illinois is a sender-side modification of TCP Reno for
566 high speed long delay links. It uses round-trip-time to
567 adjust the alpha and beta parameters to achieve a higher average
568 throughput and maintain fairness.
569
570 For further details see:
571 http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~shaoliu/tcpillinois/index.html
572
573 choice
574 prompt "Default TCP congestion control"
575 default DEFAULT_CUBIC
576 help
577 Select the TCP congestion control that will be used by default
578 for all connections.
579
580 config DEFAULT_BIC
581 bool "Bic" if TCP_CONG_BIC=y
582
583 config DEFAULT_CUBIC
584 bool "Cubic" if TCP_CONG_CUBIC=y
585
586 config DEFAULT_HTCP
587 bool "Htcp" if TCP_CONG_HTCP=y
588
589 config DEFAULT_HYBLA
590 bool "Hybla" if TCP_CONG_HYBLA=y
591
592 config DEFAULT_VEGAS
593 bool "Vegas" if TCP_CONG_VEGAS=y
594
595 config DEFAULT_VENO
596 bool "Veno" if TCP_CONG_VENO=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
607
608 config TCP_CONG_CUBIC
609 tristate
610 depends on !TCP_CONG_ADVANCED
611 default y
612
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 "hybla" if DEFAULT_HYBLA
619 default "vegas" if DEFAULT_VEGAS
620 default "westwood" if DEFAULT_WESTWOOD
621 default "veno" if DEFAULT_VENO
622 default "reno" if DEFAULT_RENO
623 default "cubic"
624
625 config TCP_MD5SIG
626 bool "TCP: MD5 Signature Option support (RFC2385)"
627 select CRYPTO
628 select CRYPTO_MD5
629 ---help---
630 RFC2385 specifies a method of giving MD5 protection to TCP sessions.
631 Its main (only?) use is to protect BGP sessions between core routers
632 on the Internet.
633
634 If unsure, say N.