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+#
+# IP configuration
+#
+config IP_MULTICAST
+ bool "IP: multicasting"
+ depends on INET
+ help
+ This is code for addressing several networked computers at once,
+ enlarging your kernel by about 2 KB. You need multicasting if you
+ intend to participate in the MBONE, a high bandwidth network on top
+ of the Internet which carries audio and video broadcasts. More
+ information about the MBONE is on the WWW at
+ <http://www-itg.lbl.gov/mbone/>. Information about the multicast
+ capabilities of the various network cards is contained in
+ <file:Documentation/networking/multicast.txt>. For most people, it's
+ safe to say N.
+
+config IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
+ bool "IP: advanced router"
+ depends on INET
+ ---help---
+ If you intend to run your Linux box mostly as a router, i.e. as a
+ computer that forwards and redistributes network packets, say Y; you
+ will then be presented with several options that allow more precise
+ control about the routing process.
+
+ The answer to this question won't directly affect the kernel:
+ answering N will just cause the configurator to skip all the
+ questions about advanced routing.
+
+ Note that your box can only act as a router if you enable IP
+ forwarding in your kernel; you can do that by saying Y to "/proc
+ file system support" and "Sysctl support" below and executing the
+ line
+
+ echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
+
+ at boot time after the /proc file system has been mounted.
+
+ If you turn on IP forwarding, you will also get the rp_filter, which
+ automatically rejects incoming packets if the routing table entry
+ for their source address doesn't match the network interface they're
+ arriving on. This has security advantages because it prevents the
+ so-called IP spoofing, however it can pose problems if you use
+ asymmetric routing (packets from you to a host take a different path
+ than packets from that host to you) or if you operate a non-routing
+ host which has several IP addresses on different interfaces. To turn
+ rp_filter off use:
+
+ echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/<device>/rp_filter
+ or
+ echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
+
+ If unsure, say N here.
+
+config IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES
+ bool "IP: policy routing"
+ depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
+ ---help---
+ Normally, a router decides what to do with a received packet based
+ solely on the packet's final destination address. If you say Y here,
+ the Linux router will also be able to take the packet's source
+ address into account. Furthermore, the TOS (Type-Of-Service) field
+ of the packet can be used for routing decisions as well.
+
+ If you are interested in this, please see the preliminary
+ documentation at <http://www.compendium.com.ar/policy-routing.txt>
+ and <ftp://post.tepkom.ru/pub/vol2/Linux/docs/advanced-routing.tex>.
+ You will need supporting software from
+ <ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/net/ip-routing/>.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
+config IP_ROUTE_FWMARK
+ bool "IP: use netfilter MARK value as routing key"
+ depends on IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES && NETFILTER
+ help
+ If you say Y here, you will be able to specify different routes for
+ packets with different mark values (see iptables(8), MARK target).
+
+config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH
+ bool "IP: equal cost multipath"
+ depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
+ help
+ Normally, the routing tables specify a single action to be taken in
+ a deterministic manner for a given packet. If you say Y here
+ however, it becomes possible to attach several actions to a packet
+ pattern, in effect specifying several alternative paths to travel
+ for those packets. The router considers all these paths to be of
+ equal "cost" and chooses one of them in a non-deterministic fashion
+ if a matching packet arrives.
+
+config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED
+ bool "IP: equal cost multipath with caching support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on: IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH
+ help
+ Normally, equal cost multipath routing is not supported by the
+ routing cache. If you say Y here, alternative routes are cached
+ and on cache lookup a route is chosen in a configurable fashion.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
+config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_RR
+ tristate "MULTIPATH: round robin algorithm"
+ depends on IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED
+ help
+ Mulitpath routes are chosen according to Round Robin
+
+config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_RANDOM
+ tristate "MULTIPATH: random algorithm"
+ depends on IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED
+ help
+ Multipath routes are chosen in a random fashion. Actually,
+ there is no weight for a route. The advantage of this policy
+ is that it is implemented stateless and therefore introduces only
+ a very small delay.
+
+config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_WRANDOM
+ tristate "MULTIPATH: weighted random algorithm"
+ depends on IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED
+ help
+ Multipath routes are chosen in a weighted random fashion.
+ The per route weights are the weights visible via ip route 2. As the
+ corresponding state management introduces some overhead routing delay
+ is increased.
+
+config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_DRR
+ tristate "MULTIPATH: interface round robin algorithm"
+ depends on IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED
+ help
+ Connections are distributed in a round robin fashion over the
+ available interfaces. This policy makes sense if the connections
+ should be primarily distributed on interfaces and not on routes.
+
+config IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE
+ bool "IP: verbose route monitoring"
+ depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
+ help
+ If you say Y here, which is recommended, then the kernel will print
+ verbose messages regarding the routing, for example warnings about
+ received packets which look strange and could be evidence of an
+ attack or a misconfigured system somewhere. The information is
+ handled by the klogd daemon which is responsible for kernel messages
+ ("man klogd").
+
+config IP_PNP
+ bool "IP: kernel level autoconfiguration"
+ depends on INET
+ help
+ This enables automatic configuration of IP addresses of devices and
+ of the routing table during kernel boot, based on either information
+ supplied on the kernel command line or by BOOTP or RARP protocols.
+ You need to say Y only for diskless machines requiring network
+ access to boot (in which case you want to say Y to "Root file system
+ on NFS" as well), because all other machines configure the network
+ in their startup scripts.
+
+config IP_PNP_DHCP
+ bool "IP: DHCP support"
+ depends on IP_PNP
+ ---help---
+ If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
+ one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
+ net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be
+ discovered automatically at boot time using the DHCP protocol (a
+ special protocol designed for doing this job), say Y here. In case
+ the boot ROM of your network card was designed for booting Linux and
+ does DHCP itself, providing all necessary information on the kernel
+ command line, you can say N here.
+
+ If unsure, say Y. Note that if you want to use DHCP, a DHCP server
+ must be operating on your network. Read
+ <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for details.
+
+config IP_PNP_BOOTP
+ bool "IP: BOOTP support"
+ depends on IP_PNP
+ ---help---
+ If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
+ one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
+ net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be
+ discovered automatically at boot time using the BOOTP protocol (a
+ special protocol designed for doing this job), say Y here. In case
+ the boot ROM of your network card was designed for booting Linux and
+ does BOOTP itself, providing all necessary information on the kernel
+ command line, you can say N here. If unsure, say Y. Note that if you
+ want to use BOOTP, a BOOTP server must be operating on your network.
+ Read <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for details.
+
+config IP_PNP_RARP
+ bool "IP: RARP support"
+ depends on IP_PNP
+ help
+ If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
+ one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
+ net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be
+ discovered automatically at boot time using the RARP protocol (an
+ older protocol which is being obsoleted by BOOTP and DHCP), say Y
+ here. Note that if you want to use RARP, a RARP server must be
+ operating on your network. Read <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for
+ details.
+
+# not yet ready..
+# bool ' IP: ARP support' CONFIG_IP_PNP_ARP
+config NET_IPIP
+ tristate "IP: tunneling"
+ depends on INET
+ select INET_TUNNEL
+ ---help---
+ Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within
+ another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
+ encapsulating protocol. This particular tunneling driver implements
+ encapsulation of IP within IP, which sounds kind of pointless, but
+ can be useful if you want to make your (or some other) machine
+ appear on a different network than it physically is, or to use
+ mobile-IP facilities (allowing laptops to seamlessly move between
+ networks without changing their IP addresses).
+
+ Saying Y to this option will produce two modules ( = code which can
+ be inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you
+ want). Most people won't need this and can say N.
+
+config NET_IPGRE
+ tristate "IP: GRE tunnels over IP"
+ depends on INET
+ select XFRM
+ help
+ Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within
+ another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
+ encapsulating protocol. This particular tunneling driver implements
+ GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) and at this time allows
+ encapsulating of IPv4 or IPv6 over existing IPv4 infrastructure.
+ This driver is useful if the other endpoint is a Cisco router: Cisco
+ likes GRE much better than the other Linux tunneling driver ("IP
+ tunneling" above). In addition, GRE allows multicast redistribution
+ through the tunnel.
+
+config NET_IPGRE_BROADCAST
+ bool "IP: broadcast GRE over IP"
+ depends on IP_MULTICAST && NET_IPGRE
+ help
+ One application of GRE/IP is to construct a broadcast WAN (Wide Area
+ Network), which looks like a normal Ethernet LAN (Local Area
+ Network), but can be distributed all over the Internet. If you want
+ to do that, say Y here and to "IP multicast routing" below.
+
+config IP_MROUTE
+ bool "IP: multicast routing"
+ depends on IP_MULTICAST
+ help
+ This is used if you want your machine to act as a router for IP
+ packets that have several destination addresses. It is needed on the
+ MBONE, a high bandwidth network on top of the Internet which carries
+ audio and video broadcasts. In order to do that, you would most
+ likely run the program mrouted. Information about the multicast
+ capabilities of the various network cards is contained in
+ <file:Documentation/networking/multicast.txt>. If you haven't heard
+ about it, you don't need it.
+
+config IP_PIMSM_V1
+ bool "IP: PIM-SM version 1 support"
+ depends on IP_MROUTE
+ help
+ Kernel side support for Sparse Mode PIM (Protocol Independent
+ Multicast) version 1. This multicast routing protocol is used widely
+ because Cisco supports it. You need special software to use it
+ (pimd-v1). Please see <http://netweb.usc.edu/pim/> for more
+ information about PIM.
+
+ Say Y if you want to use PIM-SM v1. Note that you can say N here if
+ you just want to use Dense Mode PIM.
+
+config IP_PIMSM_V2
+ bool "IP: PIM-SM version 2 support"
+ depends on IP_MROUTE
+ help
+ Kernel side support for Sparse Mode PIM version 2. In order to use
+ this, you need an experimental routing daemon supporting it (pimd or
+ gated-5). This routing protocol is not used widely, so say N unless
+ you want to play with it.
+
+config ARPD
+ bool "IP: ARP daemon support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
+ ---help---
+ Normally, the kernel maintains an internal cache which maps IP
+ addresses to hardware addresses on the local network, so that
+ Ethernet/Token Ring/ etc. frames are sent to the proper address on
+ the physical networking layer. For small networks having a few
+ hundred directly connected hosts or less, keeping this address
+ resolution (ARP) cache inside the kernel works well. However,
+ maintaining an internal ARP cache does not work well for very large
+ switched networks, and will use a lot of kernel memory if TCP/IP
+ connections are made to many machines on the network.
+
+ If you say Y here, the kernel's internal ARP cache will never grow
+ to more than 256 entries (the oldest entries are expired in a LIFO
+ manner) and communication will be attempted with the user space ARP
+ daemon arpd. Arpd then answers the address resolution request either
+ from its own cache or by asking the net.
+
+ This code is experimental and also obsolete. If you want to use it,
+ you need to find a version of the daemon arpd on the net somewhere,
+ and you should also say Y to "Kernel/User network link driver",
+ below. If unsure, say N.
+
+config SYN_COOKIES
+ bool "IP: TCP syncookie support (disabled per default)"
+ depends on INET
+ ---help---
+ Normal TCP/IP networking is open to an attack known as "SYN
+ flooding". This denial-of-service attack prevents legitimate remote
+ users from being able to connect to your computer during an ongoing
+ attack and requires very little work from the attacker, who can
+ operate from anywhere on the Internet.
+
+ SYN cookies provide protection against this type of attack. If you
+ say Y here, the TCP/IP stack will use a cryptographic challenge
+ protocol known as "SYN cookies" to enable legitimate users to
+ continue to connect, even when your machine is under attack. There
+ is no need for the legitimate users to change their TCP/IP software;
+ SYN cookies work transparently to them. For technical information
+ about SYN cookies, check out <http://cr.yp.to/syncookies.html>.
+
+ If you are SYN flooded, the source address reported by the kernel is
+ likely to have been forged by the attacker; it is only reported as
+ an aid in tracing the packets to their actual source and should not
+ be taken as absolute truth.
+
+ SYN cookies may prevent correct error reporting on clients when the
+ server is really overloaded. If this happens frequently better turn
+ them off.
+
+ If you say Y here, note that SYN cookies aren't enabled by default;
+ you can enable them by saying Y to "/proc file system support" and
+ "Sysctl support" below and executing the command
+
+ echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies
+
+ at boot time after the /proc file system has been mounted.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
+config INET_AH
+ tristate "IP: AH transformation"
+ depends on INET
+ select XFRM
+ select CRYPTO
+ select CRYPTO_HMAC
+ select CRYPTO_MD5
+ select CRYPTO_SHA1
+ ---help---
+ Support for IPsec AH.
+
+ If unsure, say Y.
+
+config INET_ESP
+ tristate "IP: ESP transformation"
+ depends on INET
+ select XFRM
+ select CRYPTO
+ select CRYPTO_HMAC
+ select CRYPTO_MD5
+ select CRYPTO_SHA1
+ select CRYPTO_DES
+ ---help---
+ Support for IPsec ESP.
+
+ If unsure, say Y.
+
+config INET_IPCOMP
+ tristate "IP: IPComp transformation"
+ depends on INET
+ select XFRM
+ select INET_TUNNEL
+ select CRYPTO
+ select CRYPTO_DEFLATE
+ ---help---
+ Support for IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp) (RFC3173),
+ typically needed for IPsec.
+
+ If unsure, say Y.
+
+config INET_TUNNEL
+ tristate "IP: tunnel transformation"
+ depends on INET
+ select XFRM
+ ---help---
+ Support for generic IP tunnel transformation, which is required by
+ the IP tunneling module as well as tunnel mode IPComp.
+
+ If unsure, say Y.
+
+config IP_TCPDIAG
+ tristate "IP: TCP socket monitoring interface"
+ depends on INET
+ default y
+ ---help---
+ Support for TCP socket monitoring interface used by native Linux
+ tools such as ss. ss is included in iproute2, currently downloadable
+ at <http://developer.osdl.org/dev/iproute2>. If you want IPv6 support
+ and have selected IPv6 as a module, you need to build this as a
+ module too.
+
+ If unsure, say Y.
+
+config IP_TCPDIAG_IPV6
+ def_bool (IP_TCPDIAG=y && IPV6=y) || (IP_TCPDIAG=m && IPV6)
+
+source "net/ipv4/ipvs/Kconfig"
+