ipv4: fix nexthop attlen check in fib_nh_match
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1 #
2 # IP configuration
3 #
4 config IP_MULTICAST
5 bool "IP: multicasting"
6 help
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
15 safe to say N.
16
17 config IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
18 bool "IP: advanced router"
19 ---help---
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.
24
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.
28
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
32 line
33
34 echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
35
36 at boot time after the /proc file system has been mounted.
37
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
46 rp_filter on use:
47
48 echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/<device>/rp_filter
49 or
50 echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
51
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>.
55
56 If unsure, say N here.
57
58 config IP_FIB_TRIE_STATS
59 bool "FIB TRIE statistics"
60 depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
61 ---help---
62 Keep track of statistics on structure of FIB TRIE table.
63 Useful for testing and measuring TRIE performance.
64
65 config IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES
66 bool "IP: policy routing"
67 depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
68 select FIB_RULES
69 ---help---
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.
75
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/>.
81
82 If unsure, say N.
83
84 config IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH
85 bool "IP: equal cost multipath"
86 depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
87 help
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.
95
96 config IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE
97 bool "IP: verbose route monitoring"
98 depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
99 help
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
105 ("man klogd").
106
107 config IP_ROUTE_CLASSID
108 bool
109
110 config IP_PNP
111 bool "IP: kernel level autoconfiguration"
112 help
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.
120
121 config IP_PNP_DHCP
122 bool "IP: DHCP support"
123 depends on IP_PNP
124 ---help---
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.
133
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.
137
138 config IP_PNP_BOOTP
139 bool "IP: BOOTP support"
140 depends on IP_PNP
141 ---help---
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.
152
153 config IP_PNP_RARP
154 bool "IP: RARP support"
155 depends on IP_PNP
156 help
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.
165
166 config NET_IPIP
167 tristate "IP: tunneling"
168 select INET_TUNNEL
169 select NET_IP_TUNNEL
170 ---help---
171 Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within
172 another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
173 encapsulating protocol. This particular tunneling driver implements
174 encapsulation of IP within IP, which sounds kind of pointless, but
175 can be useful if you want to make your (or some other) machine
176 appear on a different network than it physically is, or to use
177 mobile-IP facilities (allowing laptops to seamlessly move between
178 networks without changing their IP addresses).
179
180 Saying Y to this option will produce two modules ( = code which can
181 be inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you
182 want). Most people won't need this and can say N.
183
184 config NET_IPGRE_DEMUX
185 tristate "IP: GRE demultiplexer"
186 help
187 This is helper module to demultiplex GRE packets on GRE version field criteria.
188 Required by ip_gre and pptp modules.
189
190 config NET_IP_TUNNEL
191 tristate
192 default n
193
194 config NET_IPGRE
195 tristate "IP: GRE tunnels over IP"
196 depends on (IPV6 || IPV6=n) && NET_IPGRE_DEMUX
197 select NET_IP_TUNNEL
198 help
199 Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within
200 another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
201 encapsulating protocol. This particular tunneling driver implements
202 GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) and at this time allows
203 encapsulating of IPv4 or IPv6 over existing IPv4 infrastructure.
204 This driver is useful if the other endpoint is a Cisco router: Cisco
205 likes GRE much better than the other Linux tunneling driver ("IP
206 tunneling" above). In addition, GRE allows multicast redistribution
207 through the tunnel.
208
209 config NET_IPGRE_BROADCAST
210 bool "IP: broadcast GRE over IP"
211 depends on IP_MULTICAST && NET_IPGRE
212 help
213 One application of GRE/IP is to construct a broadcast WAN (Wide Area
214 Network), which looks like a normal Ethernet LAN (Local Area
215 Network), but can be distributed all over the Internet. If you want
216 to do that, say Y here and to "IP multicast routing" below.
217
218 config IP_MROUTE
219 bool "IP: multicast routing"
220 depends on IP_MULTICAST
221 help
222 This is used if you want your machine to act as a router for IP
223 packets that have several destination addresses. It is needed on the
224 MBONE, a high bandwidth network on top of the Internet which carries
225 audio and video broadcasts. In order to do that, you would most
226 likely run the program mrouted. Information about the multicast
227 capabilities of the various network cards is contained in
228 <file:Documentation/networking/multicast.txt>. If you haven't heard
229 about it, you don't need it.
230
231 config IP_MROUTE_MULTIPLE_TABLES
232 bool "IP: multicast policy routing"
233 depends on IP_MROUTE && IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER
234 select FIB_RULES
235 help
236 Normally, a multicast router runs a userspace daemon and decides
237 what to do with a multicast packet based on the source and
238 destination addresses. If you say Y here, the multicast router
239 will also be able to take interfaces and packet marks into
240 account and run multiple instances of userspace daemons
241 simultaneously, each one handling a single table.
242
243 If unsure, say N.
244
245 config IP_PIMSM_V1
246 bool "IP: PIM-SM version 1 support"
247 depends on IP_MROUTE
248 help
249 Kernel side support for Sparse Mode PIM (Protocol Independent
250 Multicast) version 1. This multicast routing protocol is used widely
251 because Cisco supports it. You need special software to use it
252 (pimd-v1). Please see <http://netweb.usc.edu/pim/> for more
253 information about PIM.
254
255 Say Y if you want to use PIM-SM v1. Note that you can say N here if
256 you just want to use Dense Mode PIM.
257
258 config IP_PIMSM_V2
259 bool "IP: PIM-SM version 2 support"
260 depends on IP_MROUTE
261 help
262 Kernel side support for Sparse Mode PIM version 2. In order to use
263 this, you need an experimental routing daemon supporting it (pimd or
264 gated-5). This routing protocol is not used widely, so say N unless
265 you want to play with it.
266
267 config ARPD
268 bool "IP: ARP daemon support"
269 ---help---
270 The kernel maintains an internal cache which maps IP addresses to
271 hardware addresses on the local network, so that Ethernet
272 frames are sent to the proper address on the physical networking
273 layer. Normally, kernel uses the ARP protocol to resolve these
274 mappings.
275
276 Saying Y here adds support to have an user space daemon to do this
277 resolution instead. This is useful for implementing an alternate
278 address resolution protocol (e.g. NHRP on mGRE tunnels) and also for
279 testing purposes.
280
281 If unsure, say N.
282
283 config SYN_COOKIES
284 bool "IP: TCP syncookie support"
285 ---help---
286 Normal TCP/IP networking is open to an attack known as "SYN
287 flooding". This denial-of-service attack prevents legitimate remote
288 users from being able to connect to your computer during an ongoing
289 attack and requires very little work from the attacker, who can
290 operate from anywhere on the Internet.
291
292 SYN cookies provide protection against this type of attack. If you
293 say Y here, the TCP/IP stack will use a cryptographic challenge
294 protocol known as "SYN cookies" to enable legitimate users to
295 continue to connect, even when your machine is under attack. There
296 is no need for the legitimate users to change their TCP/IP software;
297 SYN cookies work transparently to them. For technical information
298 about SYN cookies, check out <http://cr.yp.to/syncookies.html>.
299
300 If you are SYN flooded, the source address reported by the kernel is
301 likely to have been forged by the attacker; it is only reported as
302 an aid in tracing the packets to their actual source and should not
303 be taken as absolute truth.
304
305 SYN cookies may prevent correct error reporting on clients when the
306 server is really overloaded. If this happens frequently better turn
307 them off.
308
309 If you say Y here, you can disable SYN cookies at run time by
310 saying Y to "/proc file system support" and
311 "Sysctl support" below and executing the command
312
313 echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies
314
315 after the /proc file system has been mounted.
316
317 If unsure, say N.
318
319 config NET_IPVTI
320 tristate "Virtual (secure) IP: tunneling"
321 select INET_TUNNEL
322 select NET_IP_TUNNEL
323 depends on INET_XFRM_MODE_TUNNEL
324 ---help---
325 Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within
326 another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
327 encapsulating protocol. This can be used with xfrm mode tunnel to give
328 the notion of a secure tunnel for IPSEC and then use routing protocol
329 on top.
330
331 config INET_AH
332 tristate "IP: AH transformation"
333 select XFRM_ALGO
334 select CRYPTO
335 select CRYPTO_HMAC
336 select CRYPTO_MD5
337 select CRYPTO_SHA1
338 ---help---
339 Support for IPsec AH.
340
341 If unsure, say Y.
342
343 config INET_ESP
344 tristate "IP: ESP transformation"
345 select XFRM_ALGO
346 select CRYPTO
347 select CRYPTO_AUTHENC
348 select CRYPTO_HMAC
349 select CRYPTO_MD5
350 select CRYPTO_CBC
351 select CRYPTO_SHA1
352 select CRYPTO_DES
353 ---help---
354 Support for IPsec ESP.
355
356 If unsure, say Y.
357
358 config INET_IPCOMP
359 tristate "IP: IPComp transformation"
360 select INET_XFRM_TUNNEL
361 select XFRM_IPCOMP
362 ---help---
363 Support for IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp) (RFC3173),
364 typically needed for IPsec.
365
366 If unsure, say Y.
367
368 config INET_XFRM_TUNNEL
369 tristate
370 select INET_TUNNEL
371 default n
372
373 config INET_TUNNEL
374 tristate
375 default n
376
377 config INET_XFRM_MODE_TRANSPORT
378 tristate "IP: IPsec transport mode"
379 default y
380 select XFRM
381 ---help---
382 Support for IPsec transport mode.
383
384 If unsure, say Y.
385
386 config INET_XFRM_MODE_TUNNEL
387 tristate "IP: IPsec tunnel mode"
388 default y
389 select XFRM
390 ---help---
391 Support for IPsec tunnel mode.
392
393 If unsure, say Y.
394
395 config INET_XFRM_MODE_BEET
396 tristate "IP: IPsec BEET mode"
397 default y
398 select XFRM
399 ---help---
400 Support for IPsec BEET mode.
401
402 If unsure, say Y.
403
404 config INET_LRO
405 tristate "Large Receive Offload (ipv4/tcp)"
406 default y
407 ---help---
408 Support for Large Receive Offload (ipv4/tcp).
409
410 If unsure, say Y.
411
412 config INET_DIAG
413 tristate "INET: socket monitoring interface"
414 default y
415 ---help---
416 Support for INET (TCP, DCCP, etc) socket monitoring interface used by
417 native Linux tools such as ss. ss is included in iproute2, currently
418 downloadable at:
419
420 http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/iproute2
421
422 If unsure, say Y.
423
424 config INET_TCP_DIAG
425 depends on INET_DIAG
426 def_tristate INET_DIAG
427
428 config INET_UDP_DIAG
429 tristate "UDP: socket monitoring interface"
430 depends on INET_DIAG && (IPV6 || IPV6=n)
431 default n
432 ---help---
433 Support for UDP socket monitoring interface used by the ss tool.
434 If unsure, say Y.
435
436 menuconfig TCP_CONG_ADVANCED
437 bool "TCP: advanced congestion control"
438 ---help---
439 Support for selection of various TCP congestion control
440 modules.
441
442 Nearly all users can safely say no here, and a safe default
443 selection will be made (CUBIC with new Reno as a fallback).
444
445 If unsure, say N.
446
447 if TCP_CONG_ADVANCED
448
449 config TCP_CONG_BIC
450 tristate "Binary Increase Congestion (BIC) control"
451 default m
452 ---help---
453 BIC-TCP is a sender-side only change that ensures a linear RTT
454 fairness under large windows while offering both scalability and
455 bounded TCP-friendliness. The protocol combines two schemes
456 called additive increase and binary search increase. When the
457 congestion window is large, additive increase with a large
458 increment ensures linear RTT fairness as well as good
459 scalability. Under small congestion windows, binary search
460 increase provides TCP friendliness.
461 See http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/export/bitcp/
462
463 config TCP_CONG_CUBIC
464 tristate "CUBIC TCP"
465 default y
466 ---help---
467 This is version 2.0 of BIC-TCP which uses a cubic growth function
468 among other techniques.
469 See http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/export/bitcp/cubic-paper.pdf
470
471 config TCP_CONG_WESTWOOD
472 tristate "TCP Westwood+"
473 default m
474 ---help---
475 TCP Westwood+ is a sender-side only modification of the TCP Reno
476 protocol stack that optimizes the performance of TCP congestion
477 control. It is based on end-to-end bandwidth estimation to set
478 congestion window and slow start threshold after a congestion
479 episode. Using this estimation, TCP Westwood+ adaptively sets a
480 slow start threshold and a congestion window which takes into
481 account the bandwidth used at the time congestion is experienced.
482 TCP Westwood+ significantly increases fairness wrt TCP Reno in
483 wired networks and throughput over wireless links.
484
485 config TCP_CONG_HTCP
486 tristate "H-TCP"
487 default m
488 ---help---
489 H-TCP is a send-side only modifications of the TCP Reno
490 protocol stack that optimizes the performance of TCP
491 congestion control for high speed network links. It uses a
492 modeswitch to change the alpha and beta parameters of TCP Reno
493 based on network conditions and in a way so as to be fair with
494 other Reno and H-TCP flows.
495
496 config TCP_CONG_HSTCP
497 tristate "High Speed TCP"
498 default n
499 ---help---
500 Sally Floyd's High Speed TCP (RFC 3649) congestion control.
501 A modification to TCP's congestion control mechanism for use
502 with large congestion windows. A table indicates how much to
503 increase the congestion window by when an ACK is received.
504 For more detail see http://www.icir.org/floyd/hstcp.html
505
506 config TCP_CONG_HYBLA
507 tristate "TCP-Hybla congestion control algorithm"
508 default n
509 ---help---
510 TCP-Hybla is a sender-side only change that eliminates penalization of
511 long-RTT, large-bandwidth connections, like when satellite legs are
512 involved, especially when sharing a common bottleneck with normal
513 terrestrial connections.
514
515 config TCP_CONG_VEGAS
516 tristate "TCP Vegas"
517 default n
518 ---help---
519 TCP Vegas is a sender-side only change to TCP that anticipates
520 the onset of congestion by estimating the bandwidth. TCP Vegas
521 adjusts the sending rate by modifying the congestion
522 window. TCP Vegas should provide less packet loss, but it is
523 not as aggressive as TCP Reno.
524
525 config TCP_CONG_SCALABLE
526 tristate "Scalable TCP"
527 default n
528 ---help---
529 Scalable TCP is a sender-side only change to TCP which uses a
530 MIMD congestion control algorithm which has some nice scaling
531 properties, though is known to have fairness issues.
532 See http://www.deneholme.net/tom/scalable/
533
534 config TCP_CONG_LP
535 tristate "TCP Low Priority"
536 default n
537 ---help---
538 TCP Low Priority (TCP-LP), a distributed algorithm whose goal is
539 to utilize only the excess network bandwidth as compared to the
540 ``fair share`` of bandwidth as targeted by TCP.
541 See http://www-ece.rice.edu/networks/TCP-LP/
542
543 config TCP_CONG_VENO
544 tristate "TCP Veno"
545 default n
546 ---help---
547 TCP Veno is a sender-side only enhancement of TCP to obtain better
548 throughput over wireless networks. TCP Veno makes use of state
549 distinguishing to circumvent the difficult judgment of the packet loss
550 type. TCP Veno cuts down less congestion window in response to random
551 loss packets.
552 See <http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1177186>
553
554 config TCP_CONG_YEAH
555 tristate "YeAH TCP"
556 select TCP_CONG_VEGAS
557 default n
558 ---help---
559 YeAH-TCP is a sender-side high-speed enabled TCP congestion control
560 algorithm, which uses a mixed loss/delay approach to compute the
561 congestion window. It's design goals target high efficiency,
562 internal, RTT and Reno fairness, resilience to link loss while
563 keeping network elements load as low as possible.
564
565 For further details look here:
566 http://wil.cs.caltech.edu/pfldnet2007/paper/YeAH_TCP.pdf
567
568 config TCP_CONG_ILLINOIS
569 tristate "TCP Illinois"
570 default n
571 ---help---
572 TCP-Illinois is a sender-side modification of TCP Reno for
573 high speed long delay links. It uses round-trip-time to
574 adjust the alpha and beta parameters to achieve a higher average
575 throughput and maintain fairness.
576
577 For further details see:
578 http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~shaoliu/tcpillinois/index.html
579
580 choice
581 prompt "Default TCP congestion control"
582 default DEFAULT_CUBIC
583 help
584 Select the TCP congestion control that will be used by default
585 for all connections.
586
587 config DEFAULT_BIC
588 bool "Bic" if TCP_CONG_BIC=y
589
590 config DEFAULT_CUBIC
591 bool "Cubic" if TCP_CONG_CUBIC=y
592
593 config DEFAULT_HTCP
594 bool "Htcp" if TCP_CONG_HTCP=y
595
596 config DEFAULT_HYBLA
597 bool "Hybla" if TCP_CONG_HYBLA=y
598
599 config DEFAULT_VEGAS
600 bool "Vegas" if TCP_CONG_VEGAS=y
601
602 config DEFAULT_VENO
603 bool "Veno" if TCP_CONG_VENO=y
604
605 config DEFAULT_WESTWOOD
606 bool "Westwood" if TCP_CONG_WESTWOOD=y
607
608 config DEFAULT_RENO
609 bool "Reno"
610
611 endchoice
612
613 endif
614
615 config TCP_CONG_CUBIC
616 tristate
617 depends on !TCP_CONG_ADVANCED
618 default y
619
620 config DEFAULT_TCP_CONG
621 string
622 default "bic" if DEFAULT_BIC
623 default "cubic" if DEFAULT_CUBIC
624 default "htcp" if DEFAULT_HTCP
625 default "hybla" if DEFAULT_HYBLA
626 default "vegas" if DEFAULT_VEGAS
627 default "westwood" if DEFAULT_WESTWOOD
628 default "veno" if DEFAULT_VENO
629 default "reno" if DEFAULT_RENO
630 default "cubic"
631
632 config TCP_MD5SIG
633 bool "TCP: MD5 Signature Option support (RFC2385)"
634 select CRYPTO
635 select CRYPTO_MD5
636 ---help---
637 RFC2385 specifies a method of giving MD5 protection to TCP sessions.
638 Its main (only?) use is to protect BGP sessions between core routers
639 on the Internet.
640
641 If unsure, say N.