net/ipv4/Kconfig

   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/>. For most people, it's safe to say N.
  13
  14 config IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
  15         bool "IP: advanced router"
  16         ---help---
  17           If you intend to run your Linux box mostly as a router, i.e. as a
  18           computer that forwards and redistributes network packets, say Y; you
  19           will then be presented with several options that allow more precise
  20           control about the routing process.
  21
  22           The answer to this question won't directly affect the kernel:
  23           answering N will just cause the configurator to skip all the
  24           questions about advanced routing.
  25
  26           Note that your box can only act as a router if you enable IP
  27           forwarding in your kernel; you can do that by saying Y to "/proc
  28           file system support" and "Sysctl support" below and executing the
  29           line
  30
  31           echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
  32
  33           at boot time after the /proc file system has been mounted.
  34
  35           If you turn on IP forwarding, you should consider the rp_filter, which
  36           automatically rejects incoming packets if the routing table entry
  37           for their source address doesn't match the network interface they're
  38           arriving on. This has security advantages because it prevents the
  39           so-called IP spoofing, however it can pose problems if you use
  40           asymmetric routing (packets from you to a host take a different path
  41           than packets from that host to you) or if you operate a non-routing
  42           host which has several IP addresses on different interfaces. To turn
  43           rp_filter on use:
  44
  45           echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/<device>/rp_filter
  46            or
  47           echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
  48
  49           Note that some distributions enable it in startup scripts.
  50           For details about rp_filter strict and loose mode read
  51           <file:Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt>.
  52
  53           If unsure, say N here.
  54
  55 config IP_FIB_TRIE_STATS
  56         bool "FIB TRIE statistics"
  57         depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
  58         ---help---
  59           Keep track of statistics on structure of FIB TRIE table.
  60           Useful for testing and measuring TRIE performance.
  61
  62 config IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES
  63         bool "IP: policy routing"
  64         depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
  65         select FIB_RULES
  66         ---help---
  67           Normally, a router decides what to do with a received packet based
  68           solely on the packet's final destination address. If you say Y here,
  69           the Linux router will also be able to take the packet's source
  70           address into account. Furthermore, the TOS (Type-Of-Service) field
  71           of the packet can be used for routing decisions as well.
  72
  73           If you are interested in this, please see the preliminary
  74           documentation at <http://www.compendium.com.ar/policy-routing.txt>
  75           and <ftp://post.tepkom.ru/pub/vol2/Linux/docs/advanced-routing.tex>.
  76           You will need supporting software from
  77           <ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/net/ip-routing/>.
  78
  79           If unsure, say N.
  80
  81 config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH
  82         bool "IP: equal cost multipath"
  83         depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
  84         help
  85           Normally, the routing tables specify a single action to be taken in
  86           a deterministic manner for a given packet. If you say Y here
  87           however, it becomes possible to attach several actions to a packet
  88           pattern, in effect specifying several alternative paths to travel
  89           for those packets. The router considers all these paths to be of
  90           equal "cost" and chooses one of them in a non-deterministic fashion
  91           if a matching packet arrives.
  92
  93 config IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE
  94         bool "IP: verbose route monitoring"
  95         depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
  96         help
  97           If you say Y here, which is recommended, then the kernel will print
  98           verbose messages regarding the routing, for example warnings about
  99           received packets which look strange and could be evidence of an
 100           attack or a misconfigured system somewhere. The information is
 101           handled by the klogd daemon which is responsible for kernel messages
 102           ("man klogd").
 103
 104 config IP_ROUTE_CLASSID
 105         bool
 106
 107 config IP_PNP
 108         bool "IP: kernel level autoconfiguration"
 109         help
 110           This enables automatic configuration of IP addresses of devices and
 111           of the routing table during kernel boot, based on either information
 112           supplied on the kernel command line or by BOOTP or RARP protocols.
 113           You need to say Y only for diskless machines requiring network
 114           access to boot (in which case you want to say Y to "Root file system
 115           on NFS" as well), because all other machines configure the network
 116           in their startup scripts.
 117
 118 config IP_PNP_DHCP
 119         bool "IP: DHCP support"
 120         depends on IP_PNP
 121         ---help---
 122           If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
 123           one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
 124           net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be
 125           discovered automatically at boot time using the DHCP protocol (a
 126           special protocol designed for doing this job), say Y here. In case
 127           the boot ROM of your network card was designed for booting Linux and
 128           does DHCP itself, providing all necessary information on the kernel
 129           command line, you can say N here.
 130
 131           If unsure, say Y. Note that if you want to use DHCP, a DHCP server
 132           must be operating on your network.  Read
 133           <file:Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt> for details.
 134
 135 config IP_PNP_BOOTP
 136         bool "IP: BOOTP support"
 137         depends on IP_PNP
 138         ---help---
 139           If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
 140           one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
 141           net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be
 142           discovered automatically at boot time using the BOOTP protocol (a
 143           special protocol designed for doing this job), say Y here. In case
 144           the boot ROM of your network card was designed for booting Linux and
 145           does BOOTP itself, providing all necessary information on the kernel
 146           command line, you can say N here. If unsure, say Y. Note that if you
 147           want to use BOOTP, a BOOTP server must be operating on your network.
 148           Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt> for details.
 149
 150 config IP_PNP_RARP
 151         bool "IP: RARP 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 RARP protocol (an
 158           older protocol which is being obsoleted by BOOTP and DHCP), say Y
 159           here. Note that if you want to use RARP, a RARP server must be
 160           operating on your network. Read
 161           <file:Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt> for details.
 162
 163 config NET_IPIP
 164         tristate "IP: tunneling"
 165         select INET_TUNNEL
 166         select NET_IP_TUNNEL
 167         ---help---
 168           Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within
 169           another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
 170           encapsulating protocol. This particular tunneling driver implements
 171           encapsulation of IP within IP, which sounds kind of pointless, but
 172           can be useful if you want to make your (or some other) machine
 173           appear on a different network than it physically is, or to use
 174           mobile-IP facilities (allowing laptops to seamlessly move between
 175           networks without changing their IP addresses).
 176
 177           Saying Y to this option will produce two modules ( = code which can
 178           be inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you
 179           want). Most people won't need this and can say N.
 180
 181 config NET_IPGRE_DEMUX
 182         tristate "IP: GRE demultiplexer"
 183         help
 184          This is helper module to demultiplex GRE packets on GRE version field criteria.
 185          Required by ip_gre and pptp modules.
 186
 187 config NET_IP_TUNNEL
 188         tristate
 189         default n
 190
 191 config NET_IPGRE
 192         tristate "IP: GRE tunnels over IP"
 193         depends on (IPV6 || IPV6=n) && NET_IPGRE_DEMUX
 194         select NET_IP_TUNNEL
 195         help
 196           Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within
 197           another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
 198           encapsulating protocol. This particular tunneling driver implements
 199           GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) and at this time allows
 200           encapsulating of IPv4 or IPv6 over existing IPv4 infrastructure.
 201           This driver is useful if the other endpoint is a Cisco router: Cisco
 202           likes GRE much better than the other Linux tunneling driver ("IP
 203           tunneling" above). In addition, GRE allows multicast redistribution
 204           through the tunnel.
 205
 206 config NET_IPGRE_BROADCAST
 207         bool "IP: broadcast GRE over IP"
 208         depends on IP_MULTICAST && NET_IPGRE
 209         help
 210           One application of GRE/IP is to construct a broadcast WAN (Wide Area
 211           Network), which looks like a normal Ethernet LAN (Local Area
 212           Network), but can be distributed all over the Internet. If you want
 213           to do that, say Y here and to "IP multicast routing" below.
 214
 215 config IP_MROUTE
 216         bool "IP: multicast routing"
 217         depends on IP_MULTICAST
 218         help
 219           This is used if you want your machine to act as a router for IP
 220           packets that have several destination addresses. It is needed on the
 221           MBONE, a high bandwidth network on top of the Internet which carries
 222           audio and video broadcasts. In order to do that, you would most
 223           likely run the program mrouted. If you haven't heard about it, you
 224           don't need it.
 225
 226 config IP_MROUTE_MULTIPLE_TABLES
 227         bool "IP: multicast policy routing"
 228         depends on IP_MROUTE && IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
 229         select FIB_RULES
 230         help
 231           Normally, a multicast router runs a userspace daemon and decides
 232           what to do with a multicast packet based on the source and
 233           destination addresses. If you say Y here, the multicast router
 234           will also be able to take interfaces and packet marks into
 235           account and run multiple instances of userspace daemons
 236           simultaneously, each one handling a single table.
 237
 238           If unsure, say N.
 239
 240 config IP_PIMSM_V1
 241         bool "IP: PIM-SM version 1 support"
 242         depends on IP_MROUTE
 243         help
 244           Kernel side support for Sparse Mode PIM (Protocol Independent
 245           Multicast) version 1. This multicast routing protocol is used widely
 246           because Cisco supports it. You need special software to use it
 247           (pimd-v1). Please see <http://netweb.usc.edu/pim/> for more
 248           information about PIM.
 249
 250           Say Y if you want to use PIM-SM v1. Note that you can say N here if
 251           you just want to use Dense Mode PIM.
 252
 253 config IP_PIMSM_V2
 254         bool "IP: PIM-SM version 2 support"
 255         depends on IP_MROUTE
 256         help
 257           Kernel side support for Sparse Mode PIM version 2. In order to use
 258           this, you need an experimental routing daemon supporting it (pimd or
 259           gated-5). This routing protocol is not used widely, so say N unless
 260           you want to play with it.
 261
 262 config SYN_COOKIES
 263         bool "IP: TCP syncookie support"
 264         ---help---
 265           Normal TCP/IP networking is open to an attack known as "SYN
 266           flooding". This denial-of-service attack prevents legitimate remote
 267           users from being able to connect to your computer during an ongoing
 268           attack and requires very little work from the attacker, who can
 269           operate from anywhere on the Internet.
 270
 271           SYN cookies provide protection against this type of attack. If you
 272           say Y here, the TCP/IP stack will use a cryptographic challenge
 273           protocol known as "SYN cookies" to enable legitimate users to
 274           continue to connect, even when your machine is under attack. There
 275           is no need for the legitimate users to change their TCP/IP software;
 276           SYN cookies work transparently to them. For technical information
 277           about SYN cookies, check out <http://cr.yp.to/syncookies.html>.
 278
 279           If you are SYN flooded, the source address reported by the kernel is
 280           likely to have been forged by the attacker; it is only reported as
 281           an aid in tracing the packets to their actual source and should not
 282           be taken as absolute truth.
 283
 284           SYN cookies may prevent correct error reporting on clients when the
 285           server is really overloaded. If this happens frequently better turn
 286           them off.
 287
 288           If you say Y here, you can disable SYN cookies at run time by
 289           saying Y to "/proc file system support" and
 290           "Sysctl support" below and executing the command
 291
 292           echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies
 293
 294           after the /proc file system has been mounted.
 295
 296           If unsure, say N.
 297
 298 config NET_IPVTI
 299         tristate "Virtual (secure) IP: tunneling"
 300         select INET_TUNNEL
 301         select NET_IP_TUNNEL
 302         depends on INET_XFRM_MODE_TUNNEL
 303         ---help---
 304           Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within
 305           another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
 306           encapsulating protocol. This can be used with xfrm mode tunnel to give
 307           the notion of a secure tunnel for IPSEC and then use routing protocol
 308           on top.
 309
 310 config NET_UDP_TUNNEL
 311         tristate
 312         default n
 313
 314 config INET_AH
 315         tristate "IP: AH transformation"
 316         select XFRM_ALGO
 317         select CRYPTO
 318         select CRYPTO_HMAC
 319         select CRYPTO_MD5
 320         select CRYPTO_SHA1
 321         ---help---
 322           Support for IPsec AH.
 323
 324           If unsure, say Y.
 325
 326 config INET_ESP
 327         tristate "IP: ESP transformation"
 328         select XFRM_ALGO
 329         select CRYPTO
 330         select CRYPTO_AUTHENC
 331         select CRYPTO_HMAC
 332         select CRYPTO_MD5
 333         select CRYPTO_CBC
 334         select CRYPTO_SHA1
 335         select CRYPTO_DES
 336         ---help---
 337           Support for IPsec ESP.
 338
 339           If unsure, say Y.
 340
 341 config INET_IPCOMP
 342         tristate "IP: IPComp transformation"
 343         select INET_XFRM_TUNNEL
 344         select XFRM_IPCOMP
 345         ---help---
 346           Support for IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp) (RFC3173),
 347           typically needed for IPsec.
 348
 349           If unsure, say Y.
 350
 351 config INET_XFRM_TUNNEL
 352         tristate
 353         select INET_TUNNEL
 354         default n
 355
 356 config INET_TUNNEL
 357         tristate
 358         default n
 359
 360 config INET_XFRM_MODE_TRANSPORT
 361         tristate "IP: IPsec transport mode"
 362         default y
 363         select XFRM
 364         ---help---
 365           Support for IPsec transport mode.
 366
 367           If unsure, say Y.
 368
 369 config INET_XFRM_MODE_TUNNEL
 370         tristate "IP: IPsec tunnel mode"
 371         default y
 372         select XFRM
 373         ---help---
 374           Support for IPsec tunnel mode.
 375
 376           If unsure, say Y.
 377
 378 config INET_XFRM_MODE_BEET
 379         tristate "IP: IPsec BEET mode"
 380         default y
 381         select XFRM
 382         ---help---
 383           Support for IPsec BEET mode.
 384
 385           If unsure, say Y.
 386
 387 config INET_LRO
 388         tristate "Large Receive Offload (ipv4/tcp)"
 389         default y
 390         ---help---
 391           Support for Large Receive Offload (ipv4/tcp).
 392
 393           If unsure, say Y.
 394
 395 config INET_DIAG
 396         tristate "INET: socket monitoring interface"
 397         default y
 398         ---help---
 399           Support for INET (TCP, DCCP, etc) socket monitoring interface used by
 400           native Linux tools such as ss. ss is included in iproute2, currently
 401           downloadable at:
 402
 403             http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/iproute2
 404
 405           If unsure, say Y.
 406
 407 config INET_TCP_DIAG
 408         depends on INET_DIAG
 409         def_tristate INET_DIAG
 410
 411 config INET_UDP_DIAG
 412         tristate "UDP: socket monitoring interface"
 413         depends on INET_DIAG && (IPV6 || IPV6=n)
 414         default n
 415         ---help---
 416           Support for UDP socket monitoring interface used by the ss tool.
 417           If unsure, say Y.
 418
 419 menuconfig TCP_CONG_ADVANCED
 420         bool "TCP: advanced congestion control"
 421         ---help---
 422           Support for selection of various TCP congestion control
 423           modules.
 424
 425           Nearly all users can safely say no here, and a safe default
 426           selection will be made (CUBIC with new Reno as a fallback).
 427
 428           If unsure, say N.
 429
 430 if TCP_CONG_ADVANCED
 431
 432 config TCP_CONG_BIC
 433         tristate "Binary Increase Congestion (BIC) control"
 434         default m
 435         ---help---
 436         BIC-TCP is a sender-side only change that ensures a linear RTT
 437         fairness under large windows while offering both scalability and
 438         bounded TCP-friendliness. The protocol combines two schemes
 439         called additive increase and binary search increase. When the
 440         congestion window is large, additive increase with a large
 441         increment ensures linear RTT fairness as well as good
 442         scalability. Under small congestion windows, binary search
 443         increase provides TCP friendliness.
 444         See http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/export/bitcp/
 445
 446 config TCP_CONG_CUBIC
 447         tristate "CUBIC TCP"
 448         default y
 449         ---help---
 450         This is version 2.0 of BIC-TCP which uses a cubic growth function
 451         among other techniques.
 452         See http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/export/bitcp/cubic-paper.pdf
 453
 454 config TCP_CONG_WESTWOOD
 455         tristate "TCP Westwood+"
 456         default m
 457         ---help---
 458         TCP Westwood+ is a sender-side only modification of the TCP Reno
 459         protocol stack that optimizes the performance of TCP congestion
 460         control. It is based on end-to-end bandwidth estimation to set
 461         congestion window and slow start threshold after a congestion
 462         episode. Using this estimation, TCP Westwood+ adaptively sets a
 463         slow start threshold and a congestion window which takes into
 464         account the bandwidth used  at the time congestion is experienced.
 465         TCP Westwood+ significantly increases fairness wrt TCP Reno in
 466         wired networks and throughput over wireless links.
 467
 468 config TCP_CONG_HTCP
 469         tristate "H-TCP"
 470         default m
 471         ---help---
 472         H-TCP is a send-side only modifications of the TCP Reno
 473         protocol stack that optimizes the performance of TCP
 474         congestion control for high speed network links. It uses a
 475         modeswitch to change the alpha and beta parameters of TCP Reno
 476         based on network conditions and in a way so as to be fair with
 477         other Reno and H-TCP flows.
 478
 479 config TCP_CONG_HSTCP
 480         tristate "High Speed TCP"
 481         default n
 482         ---help---
 483         Sally Floyd's High Speed TCP (RFC 3649) congestion control.
 484         A modification to TCP's congestion control mechanism for use
 485         with large congestion windows. A table indicates how much to
 486         increase the congestion window by when an ACK is received.
 487         For more detail see http://www.icir.org/floyd/hstcp.html
 488
 489 config TCP_CONG_HYBLA
 490         tristate "TCP-Hybla congestion control algorithm"
 491         default n
 492         ---help---
 493         TCP-Hybla is a sender-side only change that eliminates penalization of
 494         long-RTT, large-bandwidth connections, like when satellite legs are
 495         involved, especially when sharing a common bottleneck with normal
 496         terrestrial connections.
 497
 498 config TCP_CONG_VEGAS
 499         tristate "TCP Vegas"
 500         default n
 501         ---help---
 502         TCP Vegas is a sender-side only change to TCP that anticipates
 503         the onset of congestion by estimating the bandwidth. TCP Vegas
 504         adjusts the sending rate by modifying the congestion
 505         window. TCP Vegas should provide less packet loss, but it is
 506         not as aggressive as TCP Reno.
 507
 508 config TCP_CONG_SCALABLE
 509         tristate "Scalable TCP"
 510         default n
 511         ---help---
 512         Scalable TCP is a sender-side only change to TCP which uses a
 513         MIMD congestion control algorithm which has some nice scaling
 514         properties, though is known to have fairness issues.
 515         See http://www.deneholme.net/tom/scalable/
 516
 517 config TCP_CONG_LP
 518         tristate "TCP Low Priority"
 519         default n
 520         ---help---
 521         TCP Low Priority (TCP-LP), a distributed algorithm whose goal is
 522         to utilize only the excess network bandwidth as compared to the
 523         ``fair share`` of bandwidth as targeted by TCP.
 524         See http://www-ece.rice.edu/networks/TCP-LP/
 525
 526 config TCP_CONG_VENO
 527         tristate "TCP Veno"
 528         default n
 529         ---help---
 530         TCP Veno is a sender-side only enhancement of TCP to obtain better
 531         throughput over wireless networks. TCP Veno makes use of state
 532         distinguishing to circumvent the difficult judgment of the packet loss
 533         type. TCP Veno cuts down less congestion window in response to random
 534         loss packets.
 535         See <http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1177186>
 536
 537 config TCP_CONG_YEAH
 538         tristate "YeAH TCP"
 539         select TCP_CONG_VEGAS
 540         default n
 541         ---help---
 542         YeAH-TCP is a sender-side high-speed enabled TCP congestion control
 543         algorithm, which uses a mixed loss/delay approach to compute the
 544         congestion window. It's design goals target high efficiency,
 545         internal, RTT and Reno fairness, resilience to link loss while
 546         keeping network elements load as low as possible.
 547
 548         For further details look here:
 549           http://wil.cs.caltech.edu/pfldnet2007/paper/YeAH_TCP.pdf
 550
 551 config TCP_CONG_ILLINOIS
 552         tristate "TCP Illinois"
 553         default n
 554         ---help---
 555         TCP-Illinois is a sender-side modification of TCP Reno for
 556         high speed long delay links. It uses round-trip-time to
 557         adjust the alpha and beta parameters to achieve a higher average
 558         throughput and maintain fairness.
 559
 560         For further details see:
 561           http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~shaoliu/tcpillinois/index.html
 562
 563 choice
 564         prompt "Default TCP congestion control"
 565         default DEFAULT_CUBIC
 566         help
 567           Select the TCP congestion control that will be used by default
 568           for all connections.
 569
 570         config DEFAULT_BIC
 571                 bool "Bic" if TCP_CONG_BIC=y
 572
 573         config DEFAULT_CUBIC
 574                 bool "Cubic" if TCP_CONG_CUBIC=y
 575
 576         config DEFAULT_HTCP
 577                 bool "Htcp" if TCP_CONG_HTCP=y
 578
 579         config DEFAULT_HYBLA
 580                 bool "Hybla" if TCP_CONG_HYBLA=y
 581
 582         config DEFAULT_VEGAS
 583                 bool "Vegas" if TCP_CONG_VEGAS=y
 584
 585         config DEFAULT_VENO
 586                 bool "Veno" if TCP_CONG_VENO=y
 587
 588         config DEFAULT_WESTWOOD
 589                 bool "Westwood" if TCP_CONG_WESTWOOD=y
 590
 591         config DEFAULT_RENO
 592                 bool "Reno"
 593
 594 endchoice
 595
 596 endif
 597
 598 config TCP_CONG_CUBIC
 599         tristate
 600         depends on !TCP_CONG_ADVANCED
 601         default y
 602
 603 config DEFAULT_TCP_CONG
 604         string
 605         default "bic" if DEFAULT_BIC
 606         default "cubic" if DEFAULT_CUBIC
 607         default "htcp" if DEFAULT_HTCP
 608         default "hybla" if DEFAULT_HYBLA
 609         default "vegas" if DEFAULT_VEGAS
 610         default "westwood" if DEFAULT_WESTWOOD
 611         default "veno" if DEFAULT_VENO
 612         default "reno" if DEFAULT_RENO
 613         default "cubic"
 614
 615 config TCP_MD5SIG
 616         bool "TCP: MD5 Signature Option support (RFC2385)"
 617         select CRYPTO
 618         select CRYPTO_MD5
 619         ---help---
 620           RFC2385 specifies a method of giving MD5 protection to TCP sessions.
 621           Its main (only?) use is to protect BGP sessions between core routers
 622           on the Internet.
 623
 624           If unsure, say N.