config IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
bool "IP: advanced router"
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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
config IP_FIB_TRIE_STATS
bool "FIB TRIE statistics"
depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
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Keep track of statistics on structure of FIB TRIE table.
Useful for testing and measuring TRIE performance.
bool "IP: policy routing"
depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
select FIB_RULES
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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
config IP_PNP_DHCP
bool "IP: DHCP support"
depends on IP_PNP
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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
config IP_PNP_BOOTP
bool "IP: BOOTP support"
depends on IP_PNP
- ---help---
+ 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
tristate "IP: tunneling"
select INET_TUNNEL
select NET_IP_TUNNEL
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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
config SYN_COOKIES
bool "IP: TCP syncookie support"
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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
select INET_TUNNEL
select NET_IP_TUNNEL
select XFRM
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Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within
another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
encapsulating protocol. This can be used with xfrm mode tunnel to give
tristate "IP: Foo (IP protocols) over UDP"
select XFRM
select NET_UDP_TUNNEL
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Foo over UDP allows any IP protocol to be directly encapsulated
over UDP include tunnels (IPIP, GRE, SIT). By encapsulating in UDP
network mechanisms and optimizations for UDP (such as ECMP
bool "IP: FOU encapsulation of IP tunnels"
depends on NET_IPIP || NET_IPGRE || IPV6_SIT
select NET_FOU
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Allow configuration of FOU or GUE encapsulation for IP tunnels.
When this option is enabled IP tunnels can be configured to use
FOU or GUE encapsulation.
config INET_AH
tristate "IP: AH transformation"
select XFRM_AH
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Support for IPsec AH (Authentication Header).
AH can be used with various authentication algorithms. Besides
config INET_ESP
tristate "IP: ESP transformation"
select XFRM_ESP
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Support for IPsec ESP (Encapsulating Security Payload).
ESP can be used with various encryption and authentication algorithms.
depends on INET_ESP
select XFRM_OFFLOAD
default n
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Support for ESP transformation offload. This makes sense
only if this system really does IPsec and want to do it
with high throughput. A typical desktop system does not
tristate "IP: IPComp transformation"
select INET_XFRM_TUNNEL
select XFRM_IPCOMP
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Support for IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp) (RFC3173),
typically needed for IPsec.
config INET_DIAG
tristate "INET: socket monitoring interface"
default y
- ---help---
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Support for INET (TCP, DCCP, etc) socket monitoring interface used by
native Linux tools such as ss. ss is included in iproute2, currently
downloadable at:
tristate "UDP: socket monitoring interface"
depends on INET_DIAG && (IPV6 || IPV6=n)
default n
- ---help---
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Support for UDP socket monitoring interface used by the ss tool.
If unsure, say Y.
tristate "RAW: socket monitoring interface"
depends on INET_DIAG && (IPV6 || IPV6=n)
default n
- ---help---
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Support for RAW socket monitoring interface used by the ss tool.
If unsure, say Y.
bool "INET: allow privileged process to administratively close sockets"
depends on INET_DIAG
default n
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Provides a SOCK_DESTROY operation that allows privileged processes
(e.g., a connection manager or a network administration tool such as
ss) to close sockets opened by other processes. Closing a socket in
menuconfig TCP_CONG_ADVANCED
bool "TCP: advanced congestion control"
- ---help---
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Support for selection of various TCP congestion control
modules.
config TCP_CONG_BIC
tristate "Binary Increase Congestion (BIC) control"
default m
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BIC-TCP is a sender-side only change that ensures a linear RTT
fairness under large windows while offering both scalability and
bounded TCP-friendliness. The protocol combines two schemes
config TCP_CONG_CUBIC
tristate "CUBIC TCP"
default y
- ---help---
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This is version 2.0 of BIC-TCP which uses a cubic growth function
among other techniques.
See http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/export/bitcp/cubic-paper.pdf
config TCP_CONG_WESTWOOD
tristate "TCP Westwood+"
default m
- ---help---
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TCP Westwood+ is a sender-side only modification of the TCP Reno
protocol stack that optimizes the performance of TCP congestion
control. It is based on end-to-end bandwidth estimation to set
config TCP_CONG_HTCP
tristate "H-TCP"
default m
- ---help---
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H-TCP is a send-side only modifications of the TCP Reno
protocol stack that optimizes the performance of TCP
congestion control for high speed network links. It uses a
config TCP_CONG_HSTCP
tristate "High Speed TCP"
default n
- ---help---
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Sally Floyd's High Speed TCP (RFC 3649) congestion control.
A modification to TCP's congestion control mechanism for use
with large congestion windows. A table indicates how much to
config TCP_CONG_HYBLA
tristate "TCP-Hybla congestion control algorithm"
default n
- ---help---
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TCP-Hybla is a sender-side only change that eliminates penalization of
long-RTT, large-bandwidth connections, like when satellite legs are
involved, especially when sharing a common bottleneck with normal
config TCP_CONG_VEGAS
tristate "TCP Vegas"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
TCP Vegas is a sender-side only change to TCP that anticipates
the onset of congestion by estimating the bandwidth. TCP Vegas
adjusts the sending rate by modifying the congestion
config TCP_CONG_NV
tristate "TCP NV"
default n
- ---help---
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TCP NV is a follow up to TCP Vegas. It has been modified to deal with
10G networks, measurement noise introduced by LRO, GRO and interrupt
coalescence. In addition, it will decrease its cwnd multiplicatively
config TCP_CONG_SCALABLE
tristate "Scalable TCP"
default n
- ---help---
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Scalable TCP is a sender-side only change to TCP which uses a
MIMD congestion control algorithm which has some nice scaling
properties, though is known to have fairness issues.
config TCP_CONG_LP
tristate "TCP Low Priority"
default n
- ---help---
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TCP Low Priority (TCP-LP), a distributed algorithm whose goal is
to utilize only the excess network bandwidth as compared to the
``fair share`` of bandwidth as targeted by TCP.
config TCP_CONG_VENO
tristate "TCP Veno"
default n
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TCP Veno is a sender-side only enhancement of TCP to obtain better
throughput over wireless networks. TCP Veno makes use of state
distinguishing to circumvent the difficult judgment of the packet loss
tristate "YeAH TCP"
select TCP_CONG_VEGAS
default n
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YeAH-TCP is a sender-side high-speed enabled TCP congestion control
algorithm, which uses a mixed loss/delay approach to compute the
congestion window. It's design goals target high efficiency,
config TCP_CONG_ILLINOIS
tristate "TCP Illinois"
default n
- ---help---
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TCP-Illinois is a sender-side modification of TCP Reno for
high speed long delay links. It uses round-trip-time to
adjust the alpha and beta parameters to achieve a higher average
config TCP_CONG_DCTCP
tristate "DataCenter TCP (DCTCP)"
default n
- ---help---
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DCTCP leverages Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) in the network to
provide multi-bit feedback to the end hosts. It is designed to provide:
config TCP_CONG_CDG
tristate "CAIA Delay-Gradient (CDG)"
default n
- ---help---
+ help
CAIA Delay-Gradient (CDG) is a TCP congestion control that modifies
the TCP sender in order to:
config TCP_CONG_BBR
tristate "BBR TCP"
default n
- ---help---
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BBR (Bottleneck Bandwidth and RTT) TCP congestion control aims to
maximize network utilization and minimize queues. It builds an explicit
bool "TCP: MD5 Signature Option support (RFC2385)"
select CRYPTO
select CRYPTO_MD5
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RFC2385 specifies a method of giving MD5 protection to TCP sessions.
Its main (only?) use is to protect BGP sessions between core routers
on the Internet.
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