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1 #
2 # Network configuration
3 #
4
5 menuconfig 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
26 if NET
27
28 config WANT_COMPAT_NETLINK_MESSAGES
29 bool
30 help
31 This option can be selected by other options that need compat
32 netlink messages.
33
34 config 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
48 config NET_INGRESS
49 bool
50
51 config NET_EGRESS
52 bool
53
54 menu "Networking options"
55
56 source "net/packet/Kconfig"
57 source "net/unix/Kconfig"
58 source "net/xfrm/Kconfig"
59 source "net/iucv/Kconfig"
60
61 config 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
85 if INET
86 source "net/ipv4/Kconfig"
87 source "net/ipv6/Kconfig"
88 source "net/netlabel/Kconfig"
89
90 endif # if INET
91
92 config 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
99 config NET_PTP_CLASSIFY
100 def_bool n
101
102 config 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
112 menuconfig 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
165 if NETFILTER
166
167 config 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
174 config 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
185 config 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
200 source "net/netfilter/Kconfig"
201 source "net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig"
202 source "net/ipv6/netfilter/Kconfig"
203 source "net/decnet/netfilter/Kconfig"
204 source "net/bridge/netfilter/Kconfig"
205
206 endif
207
208 source "net/dccp/Kconfig"
209 source "net/sctp/Kconfig"
210 source "net/rds/Kconfig"
211 source "net/tipc/Kconfig"
212 source "net/atm/Kconfig"
213 source "net/l2tp/Kconfig"
214 source "net/802/Kconfig"
215 source "net/bridge/Kconfig"
216 source "net/dsa/Kconfig"
217 source "net/8021q/Kconfig"
218 source "net/decnet/Kconfig"
219 source "net/llc/Kconfig"
220 source "net/ipx/Kconfig"
221 source "drivers/net/appletalk/Kconfig"
222 source "net/x25/Kconfig"
223 source "net/lapb/Kconfig"
224 source "net/phonet/Kconfig"
225 source "net/6lowpan/Kconfig"
226 source "net/ieee802154/Kconfig"
227 source "net/mac802154/Kconfig"
228 source "net/sched/Kconfig"
229 source "net/dcb/Kconfig"
230 source "net/dns_resolver/Kconfig"
231 source "net/batman-adv/Kconfig"
232 source "net/openvswitch/Kconfig"
233 source "net/vmw_vsock/Kconfig"
234 source "net/netlink/Kconfig"
235 source "net/mpls/Kconfig"
236 source "net/hsr/Kconfig"
237 source "net/switchdev/Kconfig"
238 source "net/l3mdev/Kconfig"
239 source "net/qrtr/Kconfig"
240 source "net/ncsi/Kconfig"
241
242 config RPS
243 bool
244 depends on SMP && SYSFS
245 default y
246
247 config RFS_ACCEL
248 bool
249 depends on RPS
250 select CPU_RMAP
251 default y
252
253 config XPS
254 bool
255 depends on SMP
256 default y
257
258 config HWBM
259 bool
260
261 config CGROUP_NET_PRIO
262 bool "Network priority cgroup"
263 depends on CGROUPS
264 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
265 ---help---
266 Cgroup subsystem for use in assigning processes to network priorities on
267 a per-interface basis.
268
269 config CGROUP_NET_CLASSID
270 bool "Network classid cgroup"
271 depends on CGROUPS
272 select SOCK_CGROUP_DATA
273 ---help---
274 Cgroup subsystem for use as general purpose socket classid marker that is
275 being used in cls_cgroup and for netfilter matching.
276
277 config NET_RX_BUSY_POLL
278 bool
279 default y
280
281 config BQL
282 bool
283 depends on SYSFS
284 select DQL
285 default y
286
287 config BPF_JIT
288 bool "enable BPF Just In Time compiler"
289 depends on HAVE_CBPF_JIT || HAVE_EBPF_JIT
290 depends on MODULES
291 ---help---
292 Berkeley Packet Filter filtering capabilities are normally handled
293 by an interpreter. This option allows kernel to generate a native
294 code when filter is loaded in memory. This should speedup
295 packet sniffing (libpcap/tcpdump).
296
297 Note, admin should enable this feature changing:
298 /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable
299 /proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_harden (optional)
300
301 config NET_FLOW_LIMIT
302 bool
303 depends on RPS
304 default y
305 ---help---
306 The network stack has to drop packets when a receive processing CPU's
307 backlog reaches netdev_max_backlog. If a few out of many active flows
308 generate the vast majority of load, drop their traffic earlier to
309 maintain capacity for the other flows. This feature provides servers
310 with many clients some protection against DoS by a single (spoofed)
311 flow that greatly exceeds average workload.
312
313 menu "Network testing"
314
315 config NET_PKTGEN
316 tristate "Packet Generator (USE WITH CAUTION)"
317 depends on INET && PROC_FS
318 ---help---
319 This module will inject preconfigured packets, at a configurable
320 rate, out of a given interface. It is used for network interface
321 stress testing and performance analysis. If you don't understand
322 what was just said, you don't need it: say N.
323
324 Documentation on how to use the packet generator can be found
325 at <file:Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt>.
326
327 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the
328 module will be called pktgen.
329
330 config NET_TCPPROBE
331 tristate "TCP connection probing"
332 depends on INET && PROC_FS && KPROBES
333 ---help---
334 This module allows for capturing the changes to TCP connection
335 state in response to incoming packets. It is used for debugging
336 TCP congestion avoidance modules. If you don't understand
337 what was just said, you don't need it: say N.
338
339 Documentation on how to use TCP connection probing can be found
340 at:
341
342 http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/tcpprobe
343
344 To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the
345 module will be called tcp_probe.
346
347 config NET_DROP_MONITOR
348 tristate "Network packet drop alerting service"
349 depends on INET && TRACEPOINTS
350 ---help---
351 This feature provides an alerting service to userspace in the
352 event that packets are discarded in the network stack. Alerts
353 are broadcast via netlink socket to any listening user space
354 process. If you don't need network drop alerts, or if you are ok
355 just checking the various proc files and other utilities for
356 drop statistics, say N here.
357
358 endmenu
359
360 endmenu
361
362 source "net/ax25/Kconfig"
363 source "net/can/Kconfig"
364 source "net/irda/Kconfig"
365 source "net/bluetooth/Kconfig"
366 source "net/rxrpc/Kconfig"
367 source "net/kcm/Kconfig"
368 source "net/strparser/Kconfig"
369
370 config FIB_RULES
371 bool
372
373 menuconfig WIRELESS
374 bool "Wireless"
375 depends on !S390
376 default y
377
378 if WIRELESS
379
380 source "net/wireless/Kconfig"
381 source "net/mac80211/Kconfig"
382
383 endif # WIRELESS
384
385 source "net/wimax/Kconfig"
386
387 source "net/rfkill/Kconfig"
388 source "net/9p/Kconfig"
389 source "net/caif/Kconfig"
390 source "net/ceph/Kconfig"
391 source "net/nfc/Kconfig"
392
393 config LWTUNNEL
394 bool "Network light weight tunnels"
395 ---help---
396 This feature provides an infrastructure to support light weight
397 tunnels like mpls. There is no netdevice associated with a light
398 weight tunnel endpoint. Tunnel encapsulation parameters are stored
399 with light weight tunnel state associated with fib routes.
400
401 config LWTUNNEL_BPF
402 bool "Execute BPF program as route nexthop action"
403 depends on LWTUNNEL
404 default y if LWTUNNEL=y
405 ---help---
406 Allows to run BPF programs as a nexthop action following a route
407 lookup for incoming and outgoing packets.
408
409 config DST_CACHE
410 bool
411 default n
412
413 config NET_DEVLINK
414 tristate "Network physical/parent device Netlink interface"
415 help
416 Network physical/parent device Netlink interface provides
417 infrastructure to support access to physical chip-wide config and
418 monitoring.
419
420 config MAY_USE_DEVLINK
421 tristate
422 default m if NET_DEVLINK=m
423 default y if NET_DEVLINK=y || NET_DEVLINK=n
424 help
425 Drivers using the devlink infrastructure should have a dependency
426 on MAY_USE_DEVLINK to ensure they do not cause link errors when
427 devlink is a loadable module and the driver using it is built-in.
428
429 endif # if NET
430
431 # Used by archs to tell that they support BPF JIT compiler plus which flavour.
432 # Only one of the two can be selected for a specific arch since eBPF JIT supersedes
433 # the cBPF JIT.
434
435 # Classic BPF JIT (cBPF)
436 config HAVE_CBPF_JIT
437 bool
438
439 # Extended BPF JIT (eBPF)
440 config HAVE_EBPF_JIT
441 bool