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<H2><A NAME="SECTION005210000">Kernel Options in 1.0 and Higher</A></H2>
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After the general option part is complete, the configuration will go
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on to ask you for various features such as SCSI drivers, etc. The
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subsequent list questions deal with networking support. The exact set
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of configuration options is in constant flux because of the ongoing
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development. A typical list of options offered by most kernel versions
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around 1.0 and 1.1 looks like this (comments are given in italics):
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Despite the macro name displayed in brackets, you must
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answer this question with y if you want to use <em>any</em>
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type of networking devices, regardless of whether this is
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Ethernet, SLIP, or PPP. When answering this question with
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y, support for Ethernet-type devices is enabled
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automatically. Support for other types of network drivers
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must be enabled separately:
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These questions concern the various link layer protocols
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supported by . SLIP allows you to transport IP
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datagrams across serial lines. The compressed header option
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provides support for CSLIP, a technique that compresses
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TCP/IP headers to as little as three bytes. Note that this
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kernel option does not turn on CSLIP automatically, it
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merely provides the necessary kernel functions for it.
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PPP is another protocol to send network traffic across
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serial lines. It is much more flexible than SLIP, and is
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not limited to IP, but will also support IPX once it is
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implemented. As PPP support has been completed only lately,
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this option may not be present in your kernel.
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PLIP provides for a way to send IP datagrams across a
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parallel port connection. It is mostly used to communicate
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with PCs running DOS.
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The following questions deal with Ethernet boards from
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various vendors. As more drivers are being developed,
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you are likely to see questions added to this section.
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If you want to build a kernel you can use on a number of
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different machines, you can enable more than one driver.
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Finally, in the filesystem section, the configuration script
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will ask you whether you want support for NFS, the
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networking filesystem. NFS lets you export filesystems
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to several hosts, which makes the files appear as if they
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were on an ordinary hard disk attached to the host.
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<P><ADDRESS>
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<I>Andrew Anderson <BR>
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Thu Mar 7 23:22:06 EST 1996</I>
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