Kernel Configuration

Tom Eastep

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2003-07-20

Table of Contents

Network Options Configuration
Netfilter Configuration

Note

For information regarding configuring and building GNU/Linux kernels, see http://www.kernelnewbies.org.

Network Options Configuration

Here's a screen shot of my Network Options Configuration:

While not all of the options that I've selected are required, they should be sufficient for most applications. Here's an excerpt from the corresponding .config file (Note: If you are running a kernel older than 2.4.17, be sure to select CONFIG_NETLINK and CONFIG_RTNETLINK):

#
 # Networking options
 #
 CONFIG_PACKET=y
 # CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP is not set
 # CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV is not set
 CONFIG_NETFILTER=y
 # CONFIG_NETFILTER_DEBUG is not set
 CONFIG_FILTER=y
 CONFIG_UNIX=y
 CONFIG_INET=y
 CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
 CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER=y
 CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES=y
 CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_FWMARK=y
 CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_NAT=y
 CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH=y
 CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_TOS=y
 CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE=y
 # CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_LARGE_TABLES is not set
 # CONFIG_IP_PNP is not set
 CONFIG_NET_IPIP=y
 CONFIG_NET_IPGRE=y
 # CONFIG_NET_IPGRE_BROADCAST is not set
 # CONFIG_IP_MROUTE is not set
 # CONFIG_ARPD is not set
 CONFIG_INET_ECN=y
 CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y

Netfilter Configuration

Here's a screen shot of my Netfilter configuration:

Note that I have built everything I need as modules. You can also build everything into your kernel but if you want to be able to deal with FTP running on a non-standard port then I recommend that you modularize FTP Protocol support.

Here's the corresponding part of my .config file:

#
#   IP: Netfilter Configuration
#
CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_FTP=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_AMANDA=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_TFTP=m
# CONFIG_IP_NF_IRC is not set
# CONFIG_IP_NF_QUEUE is not set
CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_LIMIT=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MAC=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_PKTTYPE=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MARK=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MULTIPORT=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_TOS=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_ECN=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_DSCP=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_AH_ESP=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_LENGTH=m
# CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_TTL is not set
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_TCPMSS=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_HELPER=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_STATE=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_CONNTRACK=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_UNCLEAN=m
# CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_OWNER is not set
CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REJECT=m
# CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MIRROR is not set
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_NEEDED=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REDIRECT=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_AMANDA=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_LOCAL=y
# CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_SNMP_BASIC is not set
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_FTP=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_TFTP=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MANGLE=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TOS=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_ECN=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_DSCP=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MARK=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_LOG=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_ULOG=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TCPMSS=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_ARPTABLES=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_ARPFILTER=m
# CONFIG_IP_NF_COMPAT_IPCHAINS is not set
# CONFIG_IP_NF_COMPAT_IPFWADM is not set