5 bool "IP: multicasting"
8 This is code for addressing several networked computers at once,
9 enlarging your kernel by about 2 KB. You need multicasting if you
10 intend to participate in the MBONE, a high bandwidth network on top
11 of the Internet which carries audio and video broadcasts. More
12 information about the MBONE is on the WWW at
13 <http://www-itg.lbl.gov/mbone/>. Information about the multicast
14 capabilities of the various network cards is contained in
15 <file:Documentation/networking/multicast.txt>. For most people, it's
18 config IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
19 bool "IP: advanced router"
22 If you intend to run your Linux box mostly as a router, i.e. as a
23 computer that forwards and redistributes network packets, say Y; you
24 will then be presented with several options that allow more precise
25 control about the routing process.
27 The answer to this question won't directly affect the kernel:
28 answering N will just cause the configurator to skip all the
29 questions about advanced routing.
31 Note that your box can only act as a router if you enable IP
32 forwarding in your kernel; you can do that by saying Y to "/proc
33 file system support" and "Sysctl support" below and executing the
36 echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
38 at boot time after the /proc file system has been mounted.
40 If you turn on IP forwarding, you will also get the rp_filter, which
41 automatically rejects incoming packets if the routing table entry
42 for their source address doesn't match the network interface they're
43 arriving on. This has security advantages because it prevents the
44 so-called IP spoofing, however it can pose problems if you use
45 asymmetric routing (packets from you to a host take a different path
46 than packets from that host to you) or if you operate a non-routing
47 host which has several IP addresses on different interfaces. To turn
50 echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/<device>/rp_filter
52 echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
54 If unsure, say N here.
56 config IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES
57 bool "IP: policy routing"
58 depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
60 Normally, a router decides what to do with a received packet based
61 solely on the packet's final destination address. If you say Y here,
62 the Linux router will also be able to take the packet's source
63 address into account. Furthermore, the TOS (Type-Of-Service) field
64 of the packet can be used for routing decisions as well.
66 If you are interested in this, please see the preliminary
67 documentation at <http://www.compendium.com.ar/policy-routing.txt>
68 and <ftp://post.tepkom.ru/pub/vol2/Linux/docs/advanced-routing.tex>.
69 You will need supporting software from
70 <ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/net/ip-routing/>.
74 config IP_ROUTE_FWMARK
75 bool "IP: use netfilter MARK value as routing key"
76 depends on IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES && NETFILTER
78 If you say Y here, you will be able to specify different routes for
79 packets with different mark values (see iptables(8), MARK target).
81 config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH
82 bool "IP: equal cost multipath"
83 depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
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.
93 config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED
94 bool "IP: equal cost multipath with caching support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
95 depends on: IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH
97 Normally, equal cost multipath routing is not supported by the
98 routing cache. If you say Y here, alternative routes are cached
99 and on cache lookup a route is chosen in a configurable fashion.
103 config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_RR
104 tristate "MULTIPATH: round robin algorithm"
105 depends on IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED
107 Mulitpath routes are chosen according to Round Robin
109 config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_RANDOM
110 tristate "MULTIPATH: random algorithm"
111 depends on IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED
113 Multipath routes are chosen in a random fashion. Actually,
114 there is no weight for a route. The advantage of this policy
115 is that it is implemented stateless and therefore introduces only
118 config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_WRANDOM
119 tristate "MULTIPATH: weighted random algorithm"
120 depends on IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED
122 Multipath routes are chosen in a weighted random fashion.
123 The per route weights are the weights visible via ip route 2. As the
124 corresponding state management introduces some overhead routing delay
127 config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_DRR
128 tristate "MULTIPATH: interface round robin algorithm"
129 depends on IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED
131 Connections are distributed in a round robin fashion over the
132 available interfaces. This policy makes sense if the connections
133 should be primarily distributed on interfaces and not on routes.
135 config IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE
136 bool "IP: verbose route monitoring"
137 depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
139 If you say Y here, which is recommended, then the kernel will print
140 verbose messages regarding the routing, for example warnings about
141 received packets which look strange and could be evidence of an
142 attack or a misconfigured system somewhere. The information is
143 handled by the klogd daemon which is responsible for kernel messages
147 bool "IP: kernel level autoconfiguration"
150 This enables automatic configuration of IP addresses of devices and
151 of the routing table during kernel boot, based on either information
152 supplied on the kernel command line or by BOOTP or RARP protocols.
153 You need to say Y only for diskless machines requiring network
154 access to boot (in which case you want to say Y to "Root file system
155 on NFS" as well), because all other machines configure the network
156 in their startup scripts.
159 bool "IP: DHCP support"
162 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
163 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
164 net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be
165 discovered automatically at boot time using the DHCP protocol (a
166 special protocol designed for doing this job), say Y here. In case
167 the boot ROM of your network card was designed for booting Linux and
168 does DHCP itself, providing all necessary information on the kernel
169 command line, you can say N here.
171 If unsure, say Y. Note that if you want to use DHCP, a DHCP server
172 must be operating on your network. Read
173 <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for details.
176 bool "IP: BOOTP support"
179 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
180 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
181 net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be
182 discovered automatically at boot time using the BOOTP protocol (a
183 special protocol designed for doing this job), say Y here. In case
184 the boot ROM of your network card was designed for booting Linux and
185 does BOOTP itself, providing all necessary information on the kernel
186 command line, you can say N here. If unsure, say Y. Note that if you
187 want to use BOOTP, a BOOTP server must be operating on your network.
188 Read <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for details.
191 bool "IP: RARP support"
194 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
195 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
196 net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be
197 discovered automatically at boot time using the RARP protocol (an
198 older protocol which is being obsoleted by BOOTP and DHCP), say Y
199 here. Note that if you want to use RARP, a RARP server must be
200 operating on your network. Read <file:Documentation/nfsroot.txt> for
204 # bool ' IP: ARP support' CONFIG_IP_PNP_ARP
206 tristate "IP: tunneling"
210 Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within
211 another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
212 encapsulating protocol. This particular tunneling driver implements
213 encapsulation of IP within IP, which sounds kind of pointless, but
214 can be useful if you want to make your (or some other) machine
215 appear on a different network than it physically is, or to use
216 mobile-IP facilities (allowing laptops to seamlessly move between
217 networks without changing their IP addresses).
219 Saying Y to this option will produce two modules ( = code which can
220 be inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you
221 want). Most people won't need this and can say N.
224 tristate "IP: GRE tunnels over IP"
228 Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within
229 another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
230 encapsulating protocol. This particular tunneling driver implements
231 GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) and at this time allows
232 encapsulating of IPv4 or IPv6 over existing IPv4 infrastructure.
233 This driver is useful if the other endpoint is a Cisco router: Cisco
234 likes GRE much better than the other Linux tunneling driver ("IP
235 tunneling" above). In addition, GRE allows multicast redistribution
238 config NET_IPGRE_BROADCAST
239 bool "IP: broadcast GRE over IP"
240 depends on IP_MULTICAST && NET_IPGRE
242 One application of GRE/IP is to construct a broadcast WAN (Wide Area
243 Network), which looks like a normal Ethernet LAN (Local Area
244 Network), but can be distributed all over the Internet. If you want
245 to do that, say Y here and to "IP multicast routing" below.
248 bool "IP: multicast routing"
249 depends on IP_MULTICAST
251 This is used if you want your machine to act as a router for IP
252 packets that have several destination addresses. It is needed on the
253 MBONE, a high bandwidth network on top of the Internet which carries
254 audio and video broadcasts. In order to do that, you would most
255 likely run the program mrouted. Information about the multicast
256 capabilities of the various network cards is contained in
257 <file:Documentation/networking/multicast.txt>. If you haven't heard
258 about it, you don't need it.
261 bool "IP: PIM-SM version 1 support"
264 Kernel side support for Sparse Mode PIM (Protocol Independent
265 Multicast) version 1. This multicast routing protocol is used widely
266 because Cisco supports it. You need special software to use it
267 (pimd-v1). Please see <http://netweb.usc.edu/pim/> for more
268 information about PIM.
270 Say Y if you want to use PIM-SM v1. Note that you can say N here if
271 you just want to use Dense Mode PIM.
274 bool "IP: PIM-SM version 2 support"
277 Kernel side support for Sparse Mode PIM version 2. In order to use
278 this, you need an experimental routing daemon supporting it (pimd or
279 gated-5). This routing protocol is not used widely, so say N unless
280 you want to play with it.
283 bool "IP: ARP daemon support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
284 depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL
286 Normally, the kernel maintains an internal cache which maps IP
287 addresses to hardware addresses on the local network, so that
288 Ethernet/Token Ring/ etc. frames are sent to the proper address on
289 the physical networking layer. For small networks having a few
290 hundred directly connected hosts or less, keeping this address
291 resolution (ARP) cache inside the kernel works well. However,
292 maintaining an internal ARP cache does not work well for very large
293 switched networks, and will use a lot of kernel memory if TCP/IP
294 connections are made to many machines on the network.
296 If you say Y here, the kernel's internal ARP cache will never grow
297 to more than 256 entries (the oldest entries are expired in a LIFO
298 manner) and communication will be attempted with the user space ARP
299 daemon arpd. Arpd then answers the address resolution request either
300 from its own cache or by asking the net.
302 This code is experimental and also obsolete. If you want to use it,
303 you need to find a version of the daemon arpd on the net somewhere,
304 and you should also say Y to "Kernel/User network link driver",
305 below. If unsure, say N.
308 bool "IP: TCP syncookie support (disabled per default)"
311 Normal TCP/IP networking is open to an attack known as "SYN
312 flooding". This denial-of-service attack prevents legitimate remote
313 users from being able to connect to your computer during an ongoing
314 attack and requires very little work from the attacker, who can
315 operate from anywhere on the Internet.
317 SYN cookies provide protection against this type of attack. If you
318 say Y here, the TCP/IP stack will use a cryptographic challenge
319 protocol known as "SYN cookies" to enable legitimate users to
320 continue to connect, even when your machine is under attack. There
321 is no need for the legitimate users to change their TCP/IP software;
322 SYN cookies work transparently to them. For technical information
323 about SYN cookies, check out <http://cr.yp.to/syncookies.html>.
325 If you are SYN flooded, the source address reported by the kernel is
326 likely to have been forged by the attacker; it is only reported as
327 an aid in tracing the packets to their actual source and should not
328 be taken as absolute truth.
330 SYN cookies may prevent correct error reporting on clients when the
331 server is really overloaded. If this happens frequently better turn
334 If you say Y here, note that SYN cookies aren't enabled by default;
335 you can enable them by saying Y to "/proc file system support" and
336 "Sysctl support" below and executing the command
338 echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies
340 at boot time after the /proc file system has been mounted.
345 tristate "IP: AH transformation"
353 Support for IPsec AH.
358 tristate "IP: ESP transformation"
367 Support for IPsec ESP.
372 tristate "IP: IPComp transformation"
377 select CRYPTO_DEFLATE
379 Support for IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp) (RFC3173),
380 typically needed for IPsec.
385 tristate "IP: tunnel transformation"
389 Support for generic IP tunnel transformation, which is required by
390 the IP tunneling module as well as tunnel mode IPComp.
395 tristate "IP: TCP socket monitoring interface"
399 Support for TCP socket monitoring interface used by native Linux
400 tools such as ss. ss is included in iproute2, currently downloadable
401 at <http://developer.osdl.org/dev/iproute2>. If you want IPv6 support
402 and have selected IPv6 as a module, you need to build this as a
407 config IP_TCPDIAG_IPV6
408 def_bool (IP_TCPDIAG=y && IPV6=y) || (IP_TCPDIAG=m && IPV6)
410 source "net/ipv4/ipvs/Kconfig"