CONFIG_PACKET: Packet socket

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_PACKET has multiple definitions:

Packet socket found in net/packet/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_PACKET:

• prompt: Packet socket
• type: tristate
• depends on: (none)
• defined in net/packet/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 2.6.13–2.6.39, 3.0–3.19, 4.0–4.20, 5.0–5.19, 6.0–6.17, 6.18-rc+HEAD
• modules built: af_packet, af_packet

Help text

The Packet protocol is used by applications which communicate directly with network devices without an intermediate network protocol implemented in the kernel, e.g. tcpdump. If you want them to work, choose Y.

To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called af_packet.

If unsure, say Y.

Packet socket found in net/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_PACKET:

• prompt: Packet socket
• type: tristate
• depends on: (none)
• defined in net/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 2.5.45–2.5.75, 2.6.0–2.6.12
• modules built: af_packet, af_packet

Help text

The Packet protocol is used by applications which communicate directly with network devices without an intermediate network protocol implemented in the kernel, e.g. tcpdump. If you want them to work, choose Y.

To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called af_packet.

If unsure, say Y.

Hardware

LKDDb

Raw data from LKDDb:

• lkddb module af_packet CONFIG_PACKET : net/Kconfig : "Packet socket" # in 2.5.45–2.5.75, 2.6.0–2.6.12
• lkddb module af_packet CONFIG_PACKET : net/packet/Kconfig : "Packet socket" # in 2.6.13–2.6.39, 3.0–3.19, 4.0–4.20, 5.0–5.19, 6.0–6.17, 6.18-rc+HEAD

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This page is automaticly generated with free (libre, open) software lkddb(see lkddb-sources).

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• Linux kernel
• Linux Kernel Driver DataBase (LKDDb)

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