-config ECONET
- tristate "Acorn Econet/AUN protocols (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- depends on EXPERIMENTAL && INET
- ---help---
- Econet is a fairly old and slow networking protocol mainly used by
- Acorn computers to access file and print servers. It uses native
- Econet network cards. AUN is an implementation of the higher level
- parts of Econet that runs over ordinary Ethernet connections, on
- top of the UDP packet protocol, which in turn runs on top of the
- Internet protocol IP.
-
- If you say Y here, you can choose with the next two options whether
- to send Econet/AUN traffic over a UDP Ethernet connection or over
- a native Econet network card.
-
- To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
- will be called econet.
-
-config ECONET_AUNUDP
- bool "AUN over UDP"
- depends on ECONET
- help
- Say Y here if you want to send Econet/AUN traffic over a UDP
- connection (UDP is a packet based protocol that runs on top of the
- Internet protocol IP) using an ordinary Ethernet network card.
-
-config ECONET_NATIVE
- bool "Native Econet"
- depends on ECONET
- help
- Say Y here if you have a native Econet network card installed in
- your computer.
-
-config WAN_ROUTER
- tristate "WAN router"
- depends on EXPERIMENTAL
- ---help---
- Wide Area Networks (WANs), such as X.25, frame relay and leased
- lines, are used to interconnect Local Area Networks (LANs) over vast
- distances with data transfer rates significantly higher than those
- achievable with commonly used asynchronous modem connections.
- Usually, a quite expensive external device called a `WAN router' is
- needed to connect to a WAN.
-
- As an alternative, WAN routing can be built into the Linux kernel.
- With relatively inexpensive WAN interface cards available on the
- market, a perfectly usable router can be built for less than half
- the price of an external router. If you have one of those cards and
- wish to use your Linux box as a WAN router, say Y here and also to
- the WAN driver for your card, below. You will then need the
- wan-tools package which is available from <ftp://ftp.sangoma.com/>.
- Read <file:Documentation/networking/wan-router.txt> for more
- information.
-
- To compile WAN routing support as a module, choose M here: the
- module will be called wanrouter.
-
- If unsure, say N.
-
-config NET_FASTROUTE
- bool "Fast switching (read help!)"
- depends on EXPERIMENTAL
- ---help---
- Saying Y here enables direct NIC-to-NIC (NIC = Network Interface
- Card) data transfers on the local network, which is fast.
-
- IMPORTANT NOTE: This option is NOT COMPATIBLE with "Network packet
- filtering" (CONFIG_NETFILTER). Say N here if you say Y there.
-
- However, it will work with all options in the "Advanced router"
- section (except for "Use TOS value as routing key" and
- "Use FWMARK value as routing key").
-
- At the moment, few devices support fast switching (tulip is one of
- them, a modified 8390 driver can be found at
- <ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/net/ip-routing/fastroute/fastroute-8390.tar.gz>).
-
- If unsure, say N.
-
-config NET_HW_FLOWCONTROL
- bool "Forwarding between high speed interfaces"
- depends on EXPERIMENTAL
- ---help---
- This option enables NIC (Network Interface Card) hardware throttling
- during periods of extreme congestion. At the moment only a couple
- of device drivers support it (really only one -- tulip, a modified
- 8390 driver can be found at
- <ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/net/ip-routing/fastroute/fastroute-8390.tar.gz>).
-
- Really, this option is applicable to any machine attached to a fast
- enough network, and even a 10 Mb NIC is able to kill a not very slow
- box, such as a 120MHz Pentium.
-
- However, do not say Y here if you did not experience any serious
- problems.
-
-
-menu "QoS and/or fair queueing"
-
-config NET_SCHED
- bool "QoS and/or fair queueing"
- ---help---
- When the kernel has several packets to send out over a network
- device, it has to decide which ones to send first, which ones to
- delay, and which ones to drop. This is the job of the packet
- scheduler, and several different algorithms for how to do this
- "fairly" have been proposed.
-
- If you say N here, you will get the standard packet scheduler, which
- is a FIFO (first come, first served). If you say Y here, you will be
- able to choose from among several alternative algorithms which can
- then be attached to different network devices. This is useful for
- example if some of your network devices are real time devices that
- need a certain minimum data flow rate, or if you need to limit the
- maximum data flow rate for traffic which matches specified criteria.
- This code is considered to be experimental.
-
- To administer these schedulers, you'll need the user-level utilities
- from the package iproute2+tc at <ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/net/ip-routing/>.
- That package also contains some documentation; for more, check out
- <http://snafu.freedom.org/linux2.2/iproute-notes.html>.
-
- This Quality of Service (QoS) support will enable you to use
- Differentiated Services (diffserv) and Resource Reservation Protocol
- (RSVP) on your Linux router if you also say Y to "QoS support",
- "Packet classifier API" and to some classifiers below. Documentation
- and software is at <http://diffserv.sourceforge.net/>.
-
- If you say Y here and to "/proc file system" below, you will be able
- to read status information about packet schedulers from the file
- /proc/net/psched.
-
- The available schedulers are listed in the following questions; you
- can say Y to as many as you like. If unsure, say N now.
-