linux/net/ipv6/Kconfig
Tom Herbert de551f2eb2 net: Build IPv6 into kernel by default
This patch makes the default to build IPv6 into the kernel. IPv6
now has significant traction and any remaining vestiges of IPv6
not being provided parity with IPv4 should be swept away. IPv6 is now
core to the Internet and kernel.

Points on IPv6 adoption:

- Per Google statistics, IPv6 usage has reached 7% on the Internet
  and continues to exhibit an exponential growth rate
  https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
- Just a few days ago ARIN officially depleted its IPv4 pool
- IPv6 only data centers are being successfully built
  (e.g. at Facebook)

This patch changes the IPv6 Kconfig for IPV6. Default for CONFIG_IPV6
is set to "y" and the text has been updated to reflect the maturity of
IPv6.

Impact:

Under some circumstances building modules in to kernel might have a
performance advantage. In my testing, I did notice a very slight
improvement.

This will obviously increase the size of the kernel image. In my
configuration I see:

IPv6 as module:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
9703666 1899288  933888 12536842         bf4c0a vmlinux

IPv6 built into kernel

  text     data     bss     dec     hex filename
9436490 1879600  913408 12229498         ba9b7a vmlinux

Which increases text size by ~270K (2.8% increase in size for me). If
image size is an issue, presumably for a device which does not do IP
networking (IMO we should be discouraging IPv4-only devices), IPV6 can
be disabled or still built as a module.

Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-07-13 13:10:21 -07:00

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# IPv6 configuration
#
# IPv6 as module will cause a CRASH if you try to unload it
menuconfig IPV6
tristate "The IPv6 protocol"
default y
---help---
Support for IP version 6 (IPv6).
For general information about IPv6, see
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6>.
For specific information about IPv6 under Linux, see
Documentation/networking/ipv6.txt and read the HOWTO at
<http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/>
To compile this protocol support as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called ipv6.
if IPV6
config IPV6_ROUTER_PREF
bool "IPv6: Router Preference (RFC 4191) support"
---help---
Router Preference is an optional extension to the Router
Advertisement message which improves the ability of hosts
to pick an appropriate router, especially when the hosts
are placed in a multi-homed network.
If unsure, say N.
config IPV6_ROUTE_INFO
bool "IPv6: Route Information (RFC 4191) support"
depends on IPV6_ROUTER_PREF
---help---
This is experimental support of Route Information.
If unsure, say N.
config IPV6_OPTIMISTIC_DAD
bool "IPv6: Enable RFC 4429 Optimistic DAD"
---help---
This is experimental support for optimistic Duplicate
Address Detection. It allows for autoconfigured addresses
to be used more quickly.
If unsure, say N.
config INET6_AH
tristate "IPv6: AH transformation"
select XFRM_ALGO
select CRYPTO
select CRYPTO_HMAC
select CRYPTO_MD5
select CRYPTO_SHA1
---help---
Support for IPsec AH.
If unsure, say Y.
config INET6_ESP
tristate "IPv6: ESP transformation"
select XFRM_ALGO
select CRYPTO
select CRYPTO_AUTHENC
select CRYPTO_HMAC
select CRYPTO_MD5
select CRYPTO_CBC
select CRYPTO_SHA1
select CRYPTO_DES
---help---
Support for IPsec ESP.
If unsure, say Y.
config INET6_IPCOMP
tristate "IPv6: IPComp transformation"
select INET6_XFRM_TUNNEL
select XFRM_IPCOMP
---help---
Support for IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp) (RFC3173),
typically needed for IPsec.
If unsure, say Y.
config IPV6_MIP6
tristate "IPv6: Mobility"
select XFRM
---help---
Support for IPv6 Mobility described in RFC 3775.
If unsure, say N.
config INET6_XFRM_TUNNEL
tristate
select INET6_TUNNEL
default n
config INET6_TUNNEL
tristate
default n
config INET6_XFRM_MODE_TRANSPORT
tristate "IPv6: IPsec transport mode"
default IPV6
select XFRM
---help---
Support for IPsec transport mode.
If unsure, say Y.
config INET6_XFRM_MODE_TUNNEL
tristate "IPv6: IPsec tunnel mode"
default IPV6
select XFRM
---help---
Support for IPsec tunnel mode.
If unsure, say Y.
config INET6_XFRM_MODE_BEET
tristate "IPv6: IPsec BEET mode"
default IPV6
select XFRM
---help---
Support for IPsec BEET mode.
If unsure, say Y.
config INET6_XFRM_MODE_ROUTEOPTIMIZATION
tristate "IPv6: MIPv6 route optimization mode"
select XFRM
---help---
Support for MIPv6 route optimization mode.
config IPV6_VTI
tristate "Virtual (secure) IPv6: tunneling"
select IPV6_TUNNEL
select NET_IP_TUNNEL
depends on INET6_XFRM_MODE_TUNNEL
---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
the notion of a secure tunnel for IPSEC and then use routing protocol
on top.
config IPV6_SIT
tristate "IPv6: IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnel (SIT driver)"
select INET_TUNNEL
select NET_IP_TUNNEL
select IPV6_NDISC_NODETYPE
default y
---help---
Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within
another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the
encapsulating protocol. This driver implements encapsulation of IPv6
into IPv4 packets. This is useful if you want to connect two IPv6
networks over an IPv4-only path.
Saying M here will produce a module called sit. If unsure, say Y.
config IPV6_SIT_6RD
bool "IPv6: IPv6 Rapid Deployment (6RD)"
depends on IPV6_SIT
default n
---help---
IPv6 Rapid Deployment (6rd; draft-ietf-softwire-ipv6-6rd) builds upon
mechanisms of 6to4 (RFC3056) to enable a service provider to rapidly
deploy IPv6 unicast service to IPv4 sites to which it provides
customer premise equipment. Like 6to4, it utilizes stateless IPv6 in
IPv4 encapsulation in order to transit IPv4-only network
infrastructure. Unlike 6to4, a 6rd service provider uses an IPv6
prefix of its own in place of the fixed 6to4 prefix.
With this option enabled, the SIT driver offers 6rd functionality by
providing additional ioctl API to configure the IPv6 Prefix for in
stead of static 2002::/16 for 6to4.
If unsure, say N.
config IPV6_NDISC_NODETYPE
bool
config IPV6_TUNNEL
tristate "IPv6: IP-in-IPv6 tunnel (RFC2473)"
select INET6_TUNNEL
---help---
Support for IPv6-in-IPv6 and IPv4-in-IPv6 tunnels described in
RFC 2473.
If unsure, say N.
config IPV6_GRE
tristate "IPv6: GRE tunnel"
select IPV6_TUNNEL
select NET_IP_TUNNEL
---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
GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) and at this time allows
encapsulating of IPv4 or IPv6 over existing IPv6 infrastructure.
This driver is useful if the other endpoint is a Cisco router: Cisco
likes GRE much better than the other Linux tunneling driver ("IP
tunneling" above). In addition, GRE allows multicast redistribution
through the tunnel.
Saying M here will produce a module called ip6_gre. If unsure, say N.
config IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES
bool "IPv6: Multiple Routing Tables"
select FIB_RULES
---help---
Support multiple routing tables.
config IPV6_SUBTREES
bool "IPv6: source address based routing"
depends on IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES
---help---
Enable routing by source address or prefix.
The destination address is still the primary routing key, so mixing
normal and source prefix specific routes in the same routing table
may sometimes lead to unintended routing behavior. This can be
avoided by defining different routing tables for the normal and
source prefix specific routes.
If unsure, say N.
config IPV6_MROUTE
bool "IPv6: multicast routing"
depends on IPV6
---help---
Experimental support for IPv6 multicast forwarding.
If unsure, say N.
config IPV6_MROUTE_MULTIPLE_TABLES
bool "IPv6: multicast policy routing"
depends on IPV6_MROUTE
select FIB_RULES
help
Normally, a multicast router runs a userspace daemon and decides
what to do with a multicast packet based on the source and
destination addresses. If you say Y here, the multicast router
will also be able to take interfaces and packet marks into
account and run multiple instances of userspace daemons
simultaneously, each one handling a single table.
If unsure, say N.
config IPV6_PIMSM_V2
bool "IPv6: PIM-SM version 2 support"
depends on IPV6_MROUTE
---help---
Support for IPv6 PIM multicast routing protocol PIM-SMv2.
If unsure, say N.
endif # IPV6