5 bool "IP: multicasting"
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/>. Information about the multicast
13 capabilities of the various network cards is contained in
14 <file:Documentation/networking/multicast.txt>. For most people, it's
17 config IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
18 bool "IP: advanced router"
20 If you intend to run your Linux box mostly as a router, i.e. as a
21 computer that forwards and redistributes network packets, say Y; you
22 will then be presented with several options that allow more precise
23 control about the routing process.
25 The answer to this question won't directly affect the kernel:
26 answering N will just cause the configurator to skip all the
27 questions about advanced routing.
29 Note that your box can only act as a router if you enable IP
30 forwarding in your kernel; you can do that by saying Y to "/proc
31 file system support" and "Sysctl support" below and executing the
34 echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
36 at boot time after the /proc file system has been mounted.
38 If you turn on IP forwarding, you should consider the rp_filter, which
39 automatically rejects incoming packets if the routing table entry
40 for their source address doesn't match the network interface they're
41 arriving on. This has security advantages because it prevents the
42 so-called IP spoofing, however it can pose problems if you use
43 asymmetric routing (packets from you to a host take a different path
44 than packets from that host to you) or if you operate a non-routing
45 host which has several IP addresses on different interfaces. To turn
48 echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/<device>/rp_filter
50 echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
52 Note that some distributions enable it in startup scripts.
53 For details about rp_filter strict and loose mode read
54 <file:Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt>.
56 If unsure, say N here.
58 config IP_FIB_TRIE_STATS
59 bool "FIB TRIE statistics"
60 depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
62 Keep track of statistics on structure of FIB TRIE table.
63 Useful for testing and measuring TRIE performance.
65 config IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES
66 bool "IP: policy routing"
67 depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
70 Normally, a router decides what to do with a received packet based
71 solely on the packet's final destination address. If you say Y here,
72 the Linux router will also be able to take the packet's source
73 address into account. Furthermore, the TOS (Type-Of-Service) field
74 of the packet can be used for routing decisions as well.
76 If you are interested in this, please see the preliminary
77 documentation at <http://www.compendium.com.ar/policy-routing.txt>
78 and <ftp://post.tepkom.ru/pub/vol2/Linux/docs/advanced-routing.tex>.
79 You will need supporting software from
80 <ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/net/ip-routing/>.
84 config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH
85 bool "IP: equal cost multipath"
86 depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
88 Normally, the routing tables specify a single action to be taken in
89 a deterministic manner for a given packet. If you say Y here
90 however, it becomes possible to attach several actions to a packet
91 pattern, in effect specifying several alternative paths to travel
92 for those packets. The router considers all these paths to be of
93 equal "cost" and chooses one of them in a non-deterministic fashion
94 if a matching packet arrives.
96 config IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE
97 bool "IP: verbose route monitoring"
98 depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
100 If you say Y here, which is recommended, then the kernel will print
101 verbose messages regarding the routing, for example warnings about
102 received packets which look strange and could be evidence of an
103 attack or a misconfigured system somewhere. The information is
104 handled by the klogd daemon which is responsible for kernel messages
107 config IP_ROUTE_CLASSID
111 bool "IP: kernel level autoconfiguration"
113 This enables automatic configuration of IP addresses of devices and
114 of the routing table during kernel boot, based on either information
115 supplied on the kernel command line or by BOOTP or RARP protocols.
116 You need to say Y only for diskless machines requiring network
117 access to boot (in which case you want to say Y to "Root file system
118 on NFS" as well), because all other machines configure the network
119 in their startup scripts.
122 bool "IP: DHCP support"
125 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
126 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
127 net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be
128 discovered automatically at boot time using the DHCP protocol (a
129 special protocol designed for doing this job), say Y here. In case
130 the boot ROM of your network card was designed for booting Linux and
131 does DHCP itself, providing all necessary information on the kernel
132 command line, you can say N here.
134 If unsure, say Y. Note that if you want to use DHCP, a DHCP server
135 must be operating on your network. Read
136 <file:Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt> for details.
139 bool "IP: BOOTP support"
142 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
143 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
144 net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be
145 discovered automatically at boot time using the BOOTP protocol (a
146 special protocol designed for doing this job), say Y here. In case
147 the boot ROM of your network card was designed for booting Linux and
148 does BOOTP itself, providing all necessary information on the kernel
149 command line, you can say N here. If unsure, say Y. Note that if you
150 want to use BOOTP, a BOOTP server must be operating on your network.
151 Read <file:Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt> for details.
154 bool "IP: RARP support"
157 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
158 one containing the directory /) from some other computer over the
159 net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be
160 discovered automatically at boot time using the RARP protocol (an
161 older protocol which is being obsoleted by BOOTP and DHCP), say Y
162 here. Note that if you want to use RARP, a RARP server must be
163 operating on your network. Read
164 <file:Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt> for details.
167 # bool ' IP: ARP support' CONFIG_IP_PNP_ARP
169 tristate "IP: tunneling"
172 Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within
173 another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
174 encapsulating protocol. This particular tunneling driver implements
175 encapsulation of IP within IP, which sounds kind of pointless, but
176 can be useful if you want to make your (or some other) machine
177 appear on a different network than it physically is, or to use
178 mobile-IP facilities (allowing laptops to seamlessly move between
179 networks without changing their IP addresses).
181 Saying Y to this option will produce two modules ( = code which can
182 be inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you
183 want). Most people won't need this and can say N.
185 config NET_IPGRE_DEMUX
186 tristate "IP: GRE demultiplexer"
188 This is helper module to demultiplex GRE packets on GRE version field criteria.
189 Required by ip_gre and pptp modules.
192 tristate "IP: GRE tunnels over IP"
193 depends on (IPV6 || IPV6=n) && NET_IPGRE_DEMUX
195 Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within
196 another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
197 encapsulating protocol. This particular tunneling driver implements
198 GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) and at this time allows
199 encapsulating of IPv4 or IPv6 over existing IPv4 infrastructure.
200 This driver is useful if the other endpoint is a Cisco router: Cisco
201 likes GRE much better than the other Linux tunneling driver ("IP
202 tunneling" above). In addition, GRE allows multicast redistribution
205 config NET_IPGRE_BROADCAST
206 bool "IP: broadcast GRE over IP"
207 depends on IP_MULTICAST && NET_IPGRE
209 One application of GRE/IP is to construct a broadcast WAN (Wide Area
210 Network), which looks like a normal Ethernet LAN (Local Area
211 Network), but can be distributed all over the Internet. If you want
212 to do that, say Y here and to "IP multicast routing" below.
215 bool "IP: multicast routing"
216 depends on IP_MULTICAST
218 This is used if you want your machine to act as a router for IP
219 packets that have several destination addresses. It is needed on the
220 MBONE, a high bandwidth network on top of the Internet which carries
221 audio and video broadcasts. In order to do that, you would most
222 likely run the program mrouted. Information about the multicast
223 capabilities of the various network cards is contained in
224 <file:Documentation/networking/multicast.txt>. If you haven't heard
225 about it, you don't need it.
227 config IP_MROUTE_MULTIPLE_TABLES
228 bool "IP: multicast policy routing"
229 depends on IP_MROUTE && IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
232 Normally, a multicast router runs a userspace daemon and decides
233 what to do with a multicast packet based on the source and
234 destination addresses. If you say Y here, the multicast router
235 will also be able to take interfaces and packet marks into
236 account and run multiple instances of userspace daemons
237 simultaneously, each one handling a single table.
242 bool "IP: PIM-SM version 1 support"
245 Kernel side support for Sparse Mode PIM (Protocol Independent
246 Multicast) version 1. This multicast routing protocol is used widely
247 because Cisco supports it. You need special software to use it
248 (pimd-v1). Please see <http://netweb.usc.edu/pim/> for more
249 information about PIM.
251 Say Y if you want to use PIM-SM v1. Note that you can say N here if
252 you just want to use Dense Mode PIM.
255 bool "IP: PIM-SM version 2 support"
258 Kernel side support for Sparse Mode PIM version 2. In order to use
259 this, you need an experimental routing daemon supporting it (pimd or
260 gated-5). This routing protocol is not used widely, so say N unless
261 you want to play with it.
264 bool "IP: ARP daemon support"
266 The kernel maintains an internal cache which maps IP addresses to
267 hardware addresses on the local network, so that Ethernet/Token Ring/
268 etc. frames are sent to the proper address on the physical networking
269 layer. Normally, kernel uses the ARP protocol to resolve these
272 Saying Y here adds support to have an user space daemon to do this
273 resolution instead. This is useful for implementing an alternate
274 address resolution protocol (e.g. NHRP on mGRE tunnels) and also for
280 bool "IP: TCP syncookie support"
282 Normal TCP/IP networking is open to an attack known as "SYN
283 flooding". This denial-of-service attack prevents legitimate remote
284 users from being able to connect to your computer during an ongoing
285 attack and requires very little work from the attacker, who can
286 operate from anywhere on the Internet.
288 SYN cookies provide protection against this type of attack. If you
289 say Y here, the TCP/IP stack will use a cryptographic challenge
290 protocol known as "SYN cookies" to enable legitimate users to
291 continue to connect, even when your machine is under attack. There
292 is no need for the legitimate users to change their TCP/IP software;
293 SYN cookies work transparently to them. For technical information
294 about SYN cookies, check out <http://cr.yp.to/syncookies.html>.
296 If you are SYN flooded, the source address reported by the kernel is
297 likely to have been forged by the attacker; it is only reported as
298 an aid in tracing the packets to their actual source and should not
299 be taken as absolute truth.
301 SYN cookies may prevent correct error reporting on clients when the
302 server is really overloaded. If this happens frequently better turn
305 If you say Y here, you can disable SYN cookies at run time by
306 saying Y to "/proc file system support" and
307 "Sysctl support" below and executing the command
309 echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies
311 after the /proc file system has been mounted.
316 tristate "IP: AH transformation"
323 Support for IPsec AH.
328 tristate "IP: ESP transformation"
331 select CRYPTO_AUTHENC
338 Support for IPsec ESP.
343 tristate "IP: IPComp transformation"
344 select INET_XFRM_TUNNEL
347 Support for IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp) (RFC3173),
348 typically needed for IPsec.
352 config INET_XFRM_TUNNEL
361 config INET_XFRM_MODE_TRANSPORT
362 tristate "IP: IPsec transport mode"
366 Support for IPsec transport mode.
370 config INET_XFRM_MODE_TUNNEL
371 tristate "IP: IPsec tunnel mode"
375 Support for IPsec tunnel mode.
379 config INET_XFRM_MODE_BEET
380 tristate "IP: IPsec BEET mode"
384 Support for IPsec BEET mode.
389 tristate "Large Receive Offload (ipv4/tcp)"
392 Support for Large Receive Offload (ipv4/tcp).
397 tristate "INET: socket monitoring interface"
400 Support for INET (TCP, DCCP, etc) socket monitoring interface used by
401 native Linux tools such as ss. ss is included in iproute2, currently
404 http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/iproute2
410 def_tristate INET_DIAG
414 def_tristate INET_DIAG && IPV6
416 menuconfig TCP_CONG_ADVANCED
417 bool "TCP: advanced congestion control"
419 Support for selection of various TCP congestion control
422 Nearly all users can safely say no here, and a safe default
423 selection will be made (CUBIC with new Reno as a fallback).
430 tristate "Binary Increase Congestion (BIC) control"
433 BIC-TCP is a sender-side only change that ensures a linear RTT
434 fairness under large windows while offering both scalability and
435 bounded TCP-friendliness. The protocol combines two schemes
436 called additive increase and binary search increase. When the
437 congestion window is large, additive increase with a large
438 increment ensures linear RTT fairness as well as good
439 scalability. Under small congestion windows, binary search
440 increase provides TCP friendliness.
441 See http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/export/bitcp/
443 config TCP_CONG_CUBIC
447 This is version 2.0 of BIC-TCP which uses a cubic growth function
448 among other techniques.
449 See http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/export/bitcp/cubic-paper.pdf
451 config TCP_CONG_WESTWOOD
452 tristate "TCP Westwood+"
455 TCP Westwood+ is a sender-side only modification of the TCP Reno
456 protocol stack that optimizes the performance of TCP congestion
457 control. It is based on end-to-end bandwidth estimation to set
458 congestion window and slow start threshold after a congestion
459 episode. Using this estimation, TCP Westwood+ adaptively sets a
460 slow start threshold and a congestion window which takes into
461 account the bandwidth used at the time congestion is experienced.
462 TCP Westwood+ significantly increases fairness wrt TCP Reno in
463 wired networks and throughput over wireless links.
469 H-TCP is a send-side only modifications of the TCP Reno
470 protocol stack that optimizes the performance of TCP
471 congestion control for high speed network links. It uses a
472 modeswitch to change the alpha and beta parameters of TCP Reno
473 based on network conditions and in a way so as to be fair with
474 other Reno and H-TCP flows.
476 config TCP_CONG_HSTCP
477 tristate "High Speed TCP"
478 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
481 Sally Floyd's High Speed TCP (RFC 3649) congestion control.
482 A modification to TCP's congestion control mechanism for use
483 with large congestion windows. A table indicates how much to
484 increase the congestion window by when an ACK is received.
485 For more detail see http://www.icir.org/floyd/hstcp.html
487 config TCP_CONG_HYBLA
488 tristate "TCP-Hybla congestion control algorithm"
489 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
492 TCP-Hybla is a sender-side only change that eliminates penalization of
493 long-RTT, large-bandwidth connections, like when satellite legs are
494 involved, especially when sharing a common bottleneck with normal
495 terrestrial connections.
497 config TCP_CONG_VEGAS
499 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
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.
508 config TCP_CONG_SCALABLE
509 tristate "Scalable TCP"
510 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
513 Scalable TCP is a sender-side only change to TCP which uses a
514 MIMD congestion control algorithm which has some nice scaling
515 properties, though is known to have fairness issues.
516 See http://www.deneholme.net/tom/scalable/
519 tristate "TCP Low Priority"
520 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
523 TCP Low Priority (TCP-LP), a distributed algorithm whose goal is
524 to utilize only the excess network bandwidth as compared to the
525 ``fair share`` of bandwidth as targeted by TCP.
526 See http://www-ece.rice.edu/networks/TCP-LP/
530 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
533 TCP Veno is a sender-side only enhancement of TCP to obtain better
534 throughput over wireless networks. TCP Veno makes use of state
535 distinguishing to circumvent the difficult judgment of the packet loss
536 type. TCP Veno cuts down less congestion window in response to random
538 See <http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1177186>
542 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
543 select TCP_CONG_VEGAS
546 YeAH-TCP is a sender-side high-speed enabled TCP congestion control
547 algorithm, which uses a mixed loss/delay approach to compute the
548 congestion window. It's design goals target high efficiency,
549 internal, RTT and Reno fairness, resilience to link loss while
550 keeping network elements load as low as possible.
552 For further details look here:
553 http://wil.cs.caltech.edu/pfldnet2007/paper/YeAH_TCP.pdf
555 config TCP_CONG_ILLINOIS
556 tristate "TCP Illinois"
557 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
560 TCP-Illinois is a sender-side modification of TCP Reno for
561 high speed long delay links. It uses round-trip-time to
562 adjust the alpha and beta parameters to achieve a higher average
563 throughput and maintain fairness.
565 For further details see:
566 http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~shaoliu/tcpillinois/index.html
569 prompt "Default TCP congestion control"
570 default DEFAULT_CUBIC
572 Select the TCP congestion control that will be used by default
576 bool "Bic" if TCP_CONG_BIC=y
579 bool "Cubic" if TCP_CONG_CUBIC=y
582 bool "Htcp" if TCP_CONG_HTCP=y
585 bool "Hybla" if TCP_CONG_HYBLA=y
588 bool "Vegas" if TCP_CONG_VEGAS=y
591 bool "Veno" if TCP_CONG_VENO=y
593 config DEFAULT_WESTWOOD
594 bool "Westwood" if TCP_CONG_WESTWOOD=y
603 config TCP_CONG_CUBIC
605 depends on !TCP_CONG_ADVANCED
608 config DEFAULT_TCP_CONG
610 default "bic" if DEFAULT_BIC
611 default "cubic" if DEFAULT_CUBIC
612 default "htcp" if DEFAULT_HTCP
613 default "hybla" if DEFAULT_HYBLA
614 default "vegas" if DEFAULT_VEGAS
615 default "westwood" if DEFAULT_WESTWOOD
616 default "veno" if DEFAULT_VENO
617 default "reno" if DEFAULT_RENO
621 bool "TCP: MD5 Signature Option support (RFC2385) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
622 depends on EXPERIMENTAL
626 RFC2385 specifies a method of giving MD5 protection to TCP sessions.
627 Its main (only?) use is to protect BGP sessions between core routers