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Diffstat (limited to 'networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | networking/Config.in | 72 |
1 files changed, 45 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/networking/Config.in b/networking/Config.in index 4c5cb8526..d53dddcc1 100644 --- a/networking/Config.in +++ b/networking/Config.in @@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_IPV6 bool "Enable IPv6 support" default n help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + Enable IPv6 support to busybox. This makes applets that talk IP + able to work with IPv6. config CONFIG_ARPING bool "arping" @@ -143,7 +144,8 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_IFCONFIG_SLIP default n depends on CONFIG_IFCONFIG help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + Allow "keepalive" and "outfill" support for SLIP. If you're not + planning on using serial lines, leave this unchecked. config CONFIG_FEATURE_IFCONFIG_MEMSTART_IOADDR_IRQ bool " Enable options \"mem_start\", \"io_addr\", and \"irq\"" @@ -167,7 +169,8 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_IFCONFIG_BROADCAST_PLUS default n depends on CONFIG_IFCONFIG help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + Setting this will make ifconfig attempt to find the broadcast + automatically if the value '+' is used. config CONFIG_IFUPDOWN bool "ifupdown" @@ -180,28 +183,29 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IP default n depends on CONFIG_IFUPDOWN && CONFIG_IP && CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_ADDRESS && CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_LINK && CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_ROUTE help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + Use "ip" in "ifupdown". config CONFIG_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IPV4 bool " Enable support for IPv4" default y depends on CONFIG_IFUPDOWN help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + If you want busybox to talk IPv4, leave this on. config CONFIG_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IPV6 bool " Enable support for IPv6" default n depends on CONFIG_IFUPDOWN help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + If you need support for IPv6, turn this option on. config CONFIG_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IPX bool " Enable support for IPX" default n depends on CONFIG_IFUPDOWN help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + If this option is selected you can use busybox to work with IPX + networks. config CONFIG_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_MAPPING bool " Enable mapping support" @@ -257,7 +261,9 @@ config CONFIG_IP bool "ip" default n help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + The "ip" applet is a TCP/IP interface configuration and routing + utility. You generally don't need "ip" to use busybox with + TCP/IP. if CONFIG_IP && CONFIG_IPADDR config CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_ADDRESS @@ -270,7 +276,7 @@ if ! (CONFIG_IP && CONFIG_IPADDR) default y depends on CONFIG_IP help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + Address manipulation support for the "ip" applet. endif if CONFIG_IP && CONFIG_IPLINK @@ -284,7 +290,7 @@ if !(CONFIG_IP && CONFIG_IPLINK) default y depends on CONFIG_IP help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + Configure network devices with "ip". endif if CONFIG_IP && CONFIG_IPROUTE @@ -298,7 +304,7 @@ if !(CONFIG_IP && CONFIG_IPROUTE) default y depends on CONFIG_IP help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + Add support for routing table management to "ip". endif if CONFIG_IP && CONFIG_IPTUNNEL @@ -312,7 +318,7 @@ if !(CONFIG_IP && CONFIG_IPTUNNEL) default n depends on CONFIG_IP help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + Add support for tunneling commands to "ip". endif config CONFIG_IPCALC @@ -327,31 +333,31 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_IPCALC_FANCY default y depends on CONFIG_IPCALC help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + Adds the fields hostname and silent to the output of "ipcalc". config CONFIG_IPADDR bool "ipaddr" default n help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + Equivalent to selecting address support to "ip", above. config CONFIG_IPLINK bool "iplink" default n help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + Equivalent to selecting link support to "ip", above. config CONFIG_IPROUTE bool "iproute" default n help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + Equivalent to selecting route support to "ip", above. config CONFIG_IPTUNNEL bool "iptunnel" default n help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + Equivalent to selecting tunnel support to "ip", above. config CONFIG_NAMEIF bool "nameif" @@ -384,7 +390,7 @@ config CONFIG_NSLOOKUP bool "nslookup" default n help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + Nslookup is a tool to query Internet name servers. config CONFIG_PING bool "ping" @@ -398,21 +404,23 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_FANCY_PING default y depends on CONFIG_PING help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + Make the output from the ping applet include statistics, and at the + same time provide full support for ICMP packets. config CONFIG_PING6 bool "ping6" default n depends on CONFIG_FEATURE_IPV6 help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + This will give you a ping that can talk IPv6. config CONFIG_FEATURE_FANCY_PING6 bool " Enable fancy ping6 output" default y depends on CONFIG_PING6 help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + Make the output from the ping6 applet include statistics, and at the + same time provide full support for ICMP packets. config CONFIG_ROUTE bool "route" @@ -424,27 +432,34 @@ config CONFIG_TELNET bool "telnet" default n help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + Telnet is an interface to the TELNET protocol, but is also commonly + used to test other simple protocols. config CONFIG_FEATURE_TELNET_TTYPE bool " Pass TERM type to remote host" default y depends on CONFIG_TELNET help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + Setting this option will forward the TERM environment variable to the + remote host you are connecting to. This is useful to make sure that + things like ANSI colors and other control sequences behave. config CONFIG_TELNETD bool "telnetd" default n help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + A daemon for the TELNET protocol, allowing you to log on to the host + running the daemon. Please keep in mind that the TELNET protocol + sends passwords in plain text. If you can't afford the space for + any SSH daemon and you trust your network, say 'y' here. config CONFIG_FEATURE_TELNETD_INETD bool " Support call from inetd only" default n depends on CONFIG_TELNETD help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + Selecting this will make telnetd only callable from inetd, removing the + standalone support. config CONFIG_TFTP bool "tftp" @@ -482,7 +497,9 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_TFTP_DEBUG default n depends on CONFIG_TFTP help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + Enable debug settings for tftp. This is useful if you're running + into problems with tftp as the protocol doesn't help you much when + you run into problems. config CONFIG_TRACEROUTE bool "traceroute" @@ -495,7 +512,8 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_TRACEROUTE_VERBOSE default n depends on CONFIG_TRACEROUTE help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + Add some verbosity to traceroute. This includes amongst other things + hostnames and ICMP response types. config CONFIG_FEATURE_TRACEROUTE_SO_DEBUG bool " Enable SO_DEBUG option" |