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Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/Kconfig | 72 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig | 16 |
2 files changed, 44 insertions, 44 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/Kconfig b/net/ipv4/Kconfig index 23ba5045e3d3..6ecbb0ced177 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/Kconfig +++ b/net/ipv4/Kconfig @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ config IP_MULTICAST config IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER bool "IP: advanced router" - ---help--- + 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 @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ config IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER config IP_FIB_TRIE_STATS bool "FIB TRIE statistics" depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER - ---help--- + help Keep track of statistics on structure of FIB TRIE table. Useful for testing and measuring TRIE performance. @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ config IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES bool "IP: policy routing" depends on IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER select FIB_RULES - ---help--- + 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 @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ config IP_PNP config IP_PNP_DHCP bool "IP: DHCP 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 @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ config IP_PNP_DHCP 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 @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ config NET_IPIP tristate "IP: tunneling" select INET_TUNNEL select NET_IP_TUNNEL - ---help--- + 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 @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ config IP_PIMSM_V2 config SYN_COOKIES bool "IP: TCP syncookie support" - ---help--- + 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 @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ config NET_IPVTI select INET_TUNNEL select NET_IP_TUNNEL select XFRM - ---help--- + help 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 @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ config NET_FOU tristate "IP: Foo (IP protocols) over UDP" select XFRM select NET_UDP_TUNNEL - ---help--- + help 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 @@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ config NET_FOU_IP_TUNNELS bool "IP: FOU encapsulation of IP tunnels" depends on NET_IPIP || NET_IPGRE || IPV6_SIT select NET_FOU - ---help--- + help 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. @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ config INET_AH select CRYPTO_HMAC select CRYPTO_MD5 select CRYPTO_SHA1 - ---help--- + help Support for IPsec AH. If unsure, say Y. @@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ config INET_ESP select CRYPTO_SHA1 select CRYPTO_DES select CRYPTO_ECHAINIV - ---help--- + help Support for IPsec ESP. If unsure, say Y. @@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ config INET_ESP_OFFLOAD depends on INET_ESP select XFRM_OFFLOAD default n - ---help--- + help 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 @@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ config INET_IPCOMP tristate "IP: IPComp transformation" select INET_XFRM_TUNNEL select XFRM_IPCOMP - ---help--- + help Support for IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp) (RFC3173), typically needed for IPsec. @@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ config INET_TUNNEL config INET_DIAG tristate "INET: socket monitoring interface" default y - ---help--- + help 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: @@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ config INET_UDP_DIAG tristate "UDP: socket monitoring interface" depends on INET_DIAG && (IPV6 || IPV6=n) default n - ---help--- + help Support for UDP socket monitoring interface used by the ss tool. If unsure, say Y. @@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ config INET_RAW_DIAG tristate "RAW: socket monitoring interface" depends on INET_DIAG && (IPV6 || IPV6=n) default n - ---help--- + help Support for RAW socket monitoring interface used by the ss tool. If unsure, say Y. @@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ config INET_DIAG_DESTROY bool "INET: allow privileged process to administratively close sockets" depends on INET_DIAG default n - ---help--- + help 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 @@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ config INET_DIAG_DESTROY menuconfig TCP_CONG_ADVANCED bool "TCP: advanced congestion control" - ---help--- + help Support for selection of various TCP congestion control modules. @@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ if TCP_CONG_ADVANCED config TCP_CONG_BIC tristate "Binary Increase Congestion (BIC) control" default m - ---help--- + help 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 @@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ config TCP_CONG_BIC config TCP_CONG_CUBIC tristate "CUBIC TCP" default y - ---help--- + help 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 @@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ config TCP_CONG_CUBIC config TCP_CONG_WESTWOOD tristate "TCP Westwood+" default m - ---help--- + help 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 @@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ config TCP_CONG_WESTWOOD config TCP_CONG_HTCP tristate "H-TCP" default m - ---help--- + help 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 @@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ config TCP_CONG_HTCP config TCP_CONG_HSTCP tristate "High Speed TCP" default n - ---help--- + help 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 @@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ config TCP_CONG_HSTCP config TCP_CONG_HYBLA tristate "TCP-Hybla congestion control algorithm" default n - ---help--- + help 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 @@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ config TCP_CONG_HYBLA 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 @@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ config TCP_CONG_VEGAS config TCP_CONG_NV tristate "TCP NV" default n - ---help--- + help 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 @@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ config TCP_CONG_NV config TCP_CONG_SCALABLE tristate "Scalable TCP" default n - ---help--- + help 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. @@ -572,7 +572,7 @@ config TCP_CONG_SCALABLE config TCP_CONG_LP tristate "TCP Low Priority" default n - ---help--- + help 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. @@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ config TCP_CONG_LP config TCP_CONG_VENO tristate "TCP Veno" default n - ---help--- + help 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 @@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ config TCP_CONG_YEAH tristate "YeAH TCP" select TCP_CONG_VEGAS default n - ---help--- + help 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, @@ -606,7 +606,7 @@ config TCP_CONG_YEAH config TCP_CONG_ILLINOIS tristate "TCP Illinois" default n - ---help--- + help 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 @@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ config TCP_CONG_ILLINOIS config TCP_CONG_DCTCP tristate "DataCenter TCP (DCTCP)" default n - ---help--- + help DCTCP leverages Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) in the network to provide multi-bit feedback to the end hosts. It is designed to provide: @@ -639,7 +639,7 @@ config TCP_CONG_DCTCP 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: @@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ config TCP_CONG_CDG config TCP_CONG_BBR tristate "BBR TCP" default n - ---help--- + help BBR (Bottleneck Bandwidth and RTT) TCP congestion control aims to maximize network utilization and minimize queues. It builds an explicit @@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ config TCP_MD5SIG bool "TCP: MD5 Signature Option support (RFC2385)" select CRYPTO select CRYPTO_MD5 - ---help--- + help 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. diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig b/net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig index f17b402111ce..a2f4f894be2b 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig +++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ config NF_NAT_SNMP_BASIC depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED default NF_NAT && NF_CONNTRACK_SNMP select ASN1 - ---help--- + help This module implements an Application Layer Gateway (ALG) for SNMP payloads. In conjunction with NAT, it allows a network @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ config IP_NF_MATCH_ECN tristate '"ecn" match support' depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED select NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_ECN - ---help--- + help This is a backwards-compat option for the user's convenience (e.g. when running oldconfig). It selects CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_ECN. @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ config IP_NF_MATCH_RPFILTER tristate '"rpfilter" reverse path filter match support' depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED depends on IP_NF_MANGLE || IP_NF_RAW - ---help--- + help This option allows you to match packets whose replies would go out via the interface the packet came in. @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ config IP_NF_MATCH_TTL tristate '"ttl" match support' depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED select NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_HL - ---help--- + help This is a backwards-compat option for the user's convenience (e.g. when running oldconfig). It selects CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_HL. @@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ config IP_NF_TARGET_NETMAP tristate "NETMAP target support" depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED select NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_NETMAP - ---help--- + help This is a backwards-compat option for the user's convenience (e.g. when running oldconfig). It selects CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_NETMAP. @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ config IP_NF_TARGET_REDIRECT tristate "REDIRECT target support" depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED select NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_REDIRECT - ---help--- + help This is a backwards-compat option for the user's convenience (e.g. when running oldconfig). It selects CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_REDIRECT. @@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ config IP_NF_TARGET_ECN tristate "ECN target support" depends on IP_NF_MANGLE depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED - ---help--- + help This option adds a `ECN' target, which can be used in the iptables mangle table. @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ config IP_NF_TARGET_TTL tristate '"TTL" target support' depends on NETFILTER_ADVANCED && IP_NF_MANGLE select NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_HL - ---help--- + help This is a backwards-compatible option for the user's convenience (e.g. when running oldconfig). It selects CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_HL. |