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9 intend to participate in the MBONE, a high bandwidth network on top
15 safe to say N.
20 If you intend to run your Linux box mostly as a router, i.e. as a
25 The answer to this question won't directly affect the kernel:
26 answering N will just cause the configurator to skip all the
30 forwarding in your kernel; you can do that by saying Y to "/proc
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
70 Normally, a router decides what to do with a received packet based
72 the Linux router will also be able to take the packet's source
88 Normally, the routing tables specify a single action to be taken in
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
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
125 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
127 net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be
134 If unsure, say Y. Note that if you want to use DHCP, a DHCP server
142 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
144 net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be
150 want to use BOOTP, a BOOTP server must be operating on your network.
157 If you want your Linux box to mount its whole root file system (the
159 net via NFS and you want the IP address of your computer to be
162 here. Note that if you want to use RARP, a RARP server must be
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
180 Saying Y to this option will produce two modules ( = code which can
187 This is helper module to demultiplex GRE packets on GRE version field criteria.
213 One application of GRE/IP is to construct a broadcast WAN (Wide Area
216 to do that, say Y here and to "IP multicast routing" below.
222 This is used if you want your machine to act as a router for IP
225 audio and video broadcasts. In order to do that, you would most
237 what to do with a multicast packet based on the source and
239 will also be able to take interfaces and packet marks into
251 because Cisco supports it. You need special software to use it
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.
262 Kernel side support for Sparse Mode PIM version 2. In order to use
265 you want to play with it.
270 The kernel maintains an internal cache which maps IP addresses to
272 frames are sent to the proper address on the physical networking
273 layer. Normally, kernel uses the ARP protocol to resolve these
276 Saying Y here adds support to have an user space daemon to do this
286 Normal TCP/IP networking is open to an attack known as "SYN
288 users from being able to connect to your computer during an ongoing
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>.
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
310 saying Y to "/proc file system support" and
327 encapsulating protocol. This can be used with xfrm mode tunnel to give
437 bool "INET: allow privileged process to administratively close sockets"
443 ss) to close sockets opened by other processes. Closing a socket in
445 the socket and causes future socket calls to behave as if the socket
490 control. It is based on end-to-end bandwidth estimation to set
505 modeswitch to change the alpha and beta parameters of TCP Reno
506 based on network conditions and in a way so as to be fair with
514 A modification to TCP's congestion control mechanism for use
515 with large congestion windows. A table indicates how much to
532 TCP Vegas is a sender-side only change to TCP that anticipates
542 Scalable TCP is a sender-side only change to TCP which uses a
544 properties, though is known to have fairness issues.
552 to utilize only the excess network bandwidth as compared to the
560 TCP Veno is a sender-side only enhancement of TCP to obtain better
562 distinguishing to circumvent the difficult judgment of the packet loss
563 type. TCP Veno cuts down less congestion window in response to random
573 algorithm, which uses a mixed loss/delay approach to compute the
575 internal, RTT and Reno fairness, resilience to link loss while
586 high speed long delay links. It uses round-trip-time to
587 adjust the alpha and beta parameters to achieve a higher average
650 RFC2385 specifies a method of giving MD5 protection to TCP sessions.
651 Its main (only?) use is to protect BGP sessions between core routers