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"
bool "hostname"
default n
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ Show or set the system's host name
config CONFIG_HTTPD
bool "httpd"
Utilizes password settings from /etc/httpd.conf for basic
authentication on a per url basis.
+config CONFIG_FEATURE_HTTPD_AUTH_MD5
+ bool " Enable support MD5 crypted password for httpd.conf"
+ default n
+ depends on CONFIG_FEATURE_HTTPD_BASIC_AUTH
+ help
+ Please help my - send patch for set this help message
+
if !CONFIG_FEATURE_HTTPD_USAGE_FROM_INETD_ONLY
config CONFIG_FEATURE_HTTPD_RELOAD_CONFIG_SIGHUP
config CONFIG_FEATURE_HTTPD_SET_CGI_VARS_TO_ENV
bool " Enable setting of CGI_varname=value environment vars for CGI"
- default y
+ default n
depends on CONFIG_FEATURE_HTTPD_CGI
help
This option parses POST or GET arguments from a form and
bool "ifconfig"
default n
help
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+ Ifconfig is used to configure the kernel-resident network interfaces.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_IFCONFIG_STATUS
bool " Enable status reporting output (+7k)"
default y
depends on CONFIG_IFCONFIG
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ If ifconfig is called with no arguments it will display the status
+ of the currently active interfaces.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_IFCONFIG_SLIP
bool " Enable slip-specific options \"keepalive\" and \"outfill\""
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\""
default n
depends on CONFIG_IFCONFIG
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ Allow the start address for shared memory, start address for I/O,
+ and/or the interrupt line used by the specified device.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_IFCONFIG_HW
bool " Enable option \"hw\" (ether only)"
default y
depends on CONFIG_IFCONFIG
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ Set the hardware address of this interface, if the device driver
+ supports this operation. Currently, we only support the 'ether'
+ class.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_IFCONFIG_BROADCAST_PLUS
bool " Set the broadcast automatically"
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"
default n
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
-
+ Activate or deactivate the specified interfaces. This applet makes
+ use of either "ifconfig" and "route" or the "ip" command to actually
+ configure network interfaces. Therefore, you will probably also want
+ to enable either CONFIG_IFCONFIG and CONFIG_ROUTE, or enable
+ CONFIG_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IP and the various CONFIG_IP options. Of
+ course you could use non-busybox versions of these programs, so
+ against my better judgement (since this will surely result in plenty
+ of support questions on the mailing list), I do not force you to
+ enable these additional options. It is up to you to supply either
+ "ifconfig" and "route" or the "ip" command, either via busybox or via
+ standalone utilities.
+
+# I really should force these to be enabled
+# && CONFIG_IP && CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_ADDRESS && CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_LINK && CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_ROUTE
+# but then people could not use the full-blown iproute2 program...
config CONFIG_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IP
bool " Use ip applet"
default n
- depends on CONFIG_IFUPDOWN && CONFIG_IP && CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_ADDRESS && CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_LINK && CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_ROUTE
+ depends on CONFIG_IFUPDOWN
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ Use the iproute "ip" command to implement "ifupdown". You will
+ probably want to also enable CONFIG_IP, CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_ADDRESS,
+ CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_LINK, and CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_ROUTE. Of course
+ if you wanted to use the full-blown iproute2 program you could
+ leave the the busybox CONFIG_IP* options disabled.
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"
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
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
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
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
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
bool "ipcalc"
default n
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ ipcalc takes an IP address and netmask and calculates the
+ resulting broadcast, network, and host range.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_IPCALC_FANCY
bool " Fancy IPCALC, more options, adds 300 bytes"
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"
bool "nc"
default n
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ A simple Unix utility which reads and writes data across network
+ connections.
config CONFIG_NETSTAT
bool "netstat"
default n
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ Netstat prints information about the Linux networking subsystem.
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"
default n
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ Ping uses the ICMP protocol's mandatory ECHO_REQUEST datagram to
+ elicit an ICMP ECHO_RESPONSE from a host or gateway.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_FANCY_PING
bool " Enable fancy ping output"
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"
default n
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ Route displays or manipulates the kernel's IP routing tables.
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"
default n
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ This enables the Tirvial File Transfer Protocol client program. TFTP
+ is usually used for simple, small transfers such as a root image
+ for a network-enabled bootloader.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_TFTP_GET
bool " Enable \"get\" command"
default y
depends on CONFIG_TFTP
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ Add support for the GET command within the TFTP client. This allows
+ a client to retreive a file from a TFTP server.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_TFTP_PUT
bool " Enable \"put\" command"
default y
depends on CONFIG_TFTP
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ Add support for the PUT command within the TFTP client. This allows
+ a client to transfer a file to a TFTP server.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_TFTP_BLOCKSIZE
bool " Enable \"blocksize\" command"
default n
depends on CONFIG_TFTP
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ Allow the client to specify the desired block size for transfers.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_TFTP_DEBUG
bool " Enable 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"
default n
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ Utility to trace the route of IP packets
config CONFIG_FEATURE_TRACEROUTE_VERBOSE
bool " Enable verbose output"
default n
depends on CONFIG_TRACEROUTE
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
-
-config CONFIG_FEATURE_TRACEROUTE_SO_DEBUG
- bool " Enable SO_DEBUG option"
- 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_VCONFIG
bool "vconfig"
bool "wget"
default n
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ Wget is a utility for non-interactive download of files from HTTP,
+ HTTPS, and FTP servers.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_WGET_STATUSBAR
bool " Enable a nifty process meter (+2k)"
default y
depends on CONFIG_WGET
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ Enable the transfer progress bar for wget transfers.
config CONFIG_FEATURE_WGET_AUTHENTICATION
bool " Enable HTTP authentication"
default y
depends on CONFIG_WGET
help
- Please submit a patch to add help text for this item.
+ Support authenticated HTTP transfers.
source networking/udhcp/Config.in
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