default y if UML
depends on NET
bool "Network device support"
- ---help---
+ help
You can say N here if you don't intend to connect your Linux box to
any other computer at all.
config NET_CORE
default y
bool "Network core driver support"
- ---help---
+ help
You can say N here if you do not intend to use any of the
networking core drivers (i.e. VLAN, bridging, bonding, etc.)
tristate "Bonding driver support"
depends on INET
depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n
- ---help---
+ help
Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet
Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco,
'Trunking' by Sun, 802.3ad by the IEEE, and 'Bonding' in Linux.
config DUMMY
tristate "Dummy net driver support"
- ---help---
+ help
This is essentially a bit-bucket device (i.e. traffic you send to
this device is consigned into oblivion) with a configurable IP
address. It is most commonly used in order to make your currently
config EQUALIZER
tristate "EQL (serial line load balancing) support"
- ---help---
+ help
If you have two serial connections to some other computer (this
usually requires two modems and two telephone lines) and you use
SLIP (the protocol for sending Internet traffic over telephone
tristate "Intermediate Functional Block support"
depends on NET_CLS_ACT
select NET_REDIRECT
- ---help---
+ help
This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of
resources.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
config MACVLAN
tristate "MAC-VLAN support"
- ---help---
+ help
This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to
or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface.
tristate "IP-VLAN support"
depends on INET
depends on IPV6 || !IPV6
- ---help---
+ help
This allows one to create virtual devices off of a main interface
and packets will be delivered based on the dest L3 (IPv6/IPv4 addr)
on packets. All interfaces (including the main interface) share L2
depends on IPVLAN
depends on INET
select TAP
- ---help---
+ help
This adds a specialized tap character device driver that is based
on the IP-VLAN network interface, called ipvtap. An ipvtap device
can be added in the same way as a ipvlan device, using 'type
depends on INET
select NET_UDP_TUNNEL
select GRO_CELLS
- ---help---
+ help
This allows one to create vxlan virtual interfaces that provide
Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. VXLAN is often used
to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments.
depends on IPV6 || !IPV6
select NET_UDP_TUNNEL
select GRO_CELLS
- ---help---
+ help
This allows one to create geneve virtual interfaces that provide
Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3 Networks. GENEVE is often used
to tunnel virtual network infrastructure in virtualized environments.
tristate "GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U)"
depends on INET
select NET_UDP_TUNNEL
- ---help---
+ help
This allows one to create gtp virtual interfaces that provide
the GPRS Tunneling Protocol datapath (GTP-U). This tunneling protocol
is used to prevent subscribers from accessing mobile carrier core
select CRYPTO_AES
select CRYPTO_GCM
select GRO_CELLS
- ---help---
+ help
MACsec is an encryption standard for Ethernet.
config NETCONSOLE
tristate "Network console logging support"
- ---help---
+ help
If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this.
See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.rst> for details.
tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support"
depends on INET
select CRC32
- ---help---
+ help
TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space
programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet
device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media,
config TAP
tristate
- ---help---
+ help
This option is selected by any driver implementing tap user space
interface for a virtual interface to re-use core tap functionality.
config TUN_VNET_CROSS_LE
bool "Support for cross-endian vnet headers on little-endian kernels"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
This option allows TUN/TAP and MACVTAP device drivers in a
little-endian kernel to parse vnet headers that come from a
big-endian legacy virtio device.
config VETH
tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device"
- ---help---
+ help
This device is a local ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs.
When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice
versa.
tristate "Virtio network driver"
depends on VIRTIO
select NET_FAILOVER
- ---help---
+ help
This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with
QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M.
config NLMON
tristate "Virtual netlink monitoring device"
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables a monitoring net device for netlink skbs. The
purpose of this is to analyze netlink messages with packet sockets.
Thus applications like tcpdump will be able to see local netlink
depends on NET_L3_MASTER_DEV
depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n
depends on IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES || IPV6=n
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables the support for mapping interfaces into VRF's. The
support enables VRF devices.
config VSOCKMON
tristate "Virtual vsock monitoring device"
depends on VHOST_VSOCK
- ---help---
+ help
This option enables a monitoring net device for vsock sockets. It is
mostly intended for developers or support to debug vsock issues. If
unsure, say N.
config NET_SB1000
tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000"
depends on PNP
- ---help---
+ help
This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as
NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal
cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable
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