Enable IPv6 support in busybox.
This adds IPv6 support in the networking applets.
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_PREFER_IPV4_ADDRESS
+ bool "Preferentially use IPv4 addresses from DNS queries"
+ default y
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_IPV6
+ help
+ Use IPv4 address of network host if it has one.
+
+ If this option is off, the first returned address will be used.
+ This may cause problems when your DNS server is IPv6-capable and
+ is returning IPv6 host addresses too. If IPv6 address
+ precedes IPv4 one in DNS reply, busybox network applets
+ (e.g. wget) will use IPv6 address. On an IPv6-incapable host
+ or network applets will fail to connect to the host
+ using IPv6 address.
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_VERBOSE_RESOLUTION_ERRORS
+ bool "Verbose resolution errors"
+ default y
+ help
+ Enable if you are not satisfied with simplistic
+ "can't resolve 'hostname.com'" and want to know more.
+ This may increase size of your executable a bit.
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_ARP
+ bool "arp"
+ default n
+ help
+ Manipulate the system ARP cache.
+
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_ARPING
bool "arping"
default y
help
- Ping hosts by ARP packets
+ Ping hosts by ARP packets.
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_BRCTL
+ bool "brctl"
+ default y
+ help
+ Manage ethernet bridges.
+ Supports addbr/delbr and addif/delif.
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_BRCTL_FANCY
+ bool "Fancy options"
+ default y
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_BRCTL
+ help
+ Add support for extended option like:
+ setageing, setfd, sethello, setmaxage,
+ setpathcost, setportprio, setbridgeprio,
+ stp
+ This adds about 600 bytes.
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_BRCTL_SHOW
+ bool "Support show, showmac and showstp"
+ default y
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_BRCTL && BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_BRCTL_FANCY
+ help
+ Add support for option which prints the current config:
+ showmacs, showstp, show
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_DNSD
bool "dnsd"
bool "hostname"
default n
help
- Show or set the system's host name
+ Show or set the system's host name.
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_HTTPD
bool "httpd"
help
Serve web pages via an HTTP server.
-config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_HTTPD_RELOAD_CONFIG_SIGHUP
- bool "Support reloading the global config file using hup signal"
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_HTTPD_RANGES
+ bool "Support 'Ranges:' header"
+ default y
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_HTTPD
+ help
+ Makes httpd emit "Accept-Ranges: bytes" header and understand
+ "Range: bytes=NNN-[MMM]" header. Allows for resuming interrupted
+ downloads, seeking in multimedia players etc.
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_HTTPD_USE_SENDFILE
+ bool "Use sendfile system call"
default n
- depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_HTTPD && BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_HTTPD_WITHOUT_INETD
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_HTTPD
+ help
+ When enabled, httpd will use the kernel sendfile() function
+ instead of read/write loop.
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_HTTPD_RELOAD_CONFIG_SIGHUP
+ bool "Support reloading of global config file on HUP signal"
+ default y
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_HTTPD
help
This option enables processing of SIGHUP to reload cached
configuration settings.
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_HTTPD_SETUID
- bool "Enable support -u <user> option"
+ bool "Enable -u <user> option"
default n
- depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_HTTPD && BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_HTTPD_WITHOUT_INETD
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_HTTPD
help
This option allows the server to run as a specific user
rather than defaulting to the user that starts the server.
when specific URLs are requested.
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_HTTPD_CONFIG_WITH_SCRIPT_INTERPR
- bool "Enable support for running scripts through an interpreter"
- default n
+ bool "Support for running scripts through an interpreter"
+ default y
depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_HTTPD_CGI
help
This option enables support for running scripts through an
interpreter. Turn this on if you want PHP scripts to work
- properly. You need to supply an addition line in your httpd
+ properly. You need to supply an additional line in your httpd
config file:
*.php:/path/to/your/php
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_HTTPD_SET_REMOTE_PORT_TO_ENV
- bool "Support the REMOTE_PORT environment variable for CGI"
+ bool "Set REMOTE_PORT environment variable for CGI"
default y
depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_HTTPD_CGI
help
references that contain a unique port number.
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_HTTPD_ENCODE_URL_STR
- bool "Enable the -e option for shell script CGI simplification."
+ bool "Enable -e option (useful for CGIs written as shell scripts)"
default y
depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_HTTPD
help
- This option allows html encoding arbitrary
- strings for display of the browser. Output goes to stdout.
- For example, httpd -e "<Hello World>" as
+ This option allows html encoding of arbitrary strings for display
+ by the browser. Output goes to stdout.
+ For example, httpd -e "<Hello World>" produces
"<Hello World>".
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_HTTPD_ERROR_PAGES
+ bool "Support for custom error pages"
+ default y
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_HTTPD
+ help
+ This option allows you to define custom error pages in
+ the configuration file instead of the default HTTP status
+ error pages. For instance, if you add the line:
+ E404:/path/e404.html
+ in the config file, the server will respond the specified
+ '/path/e404.html' file instead of the terse '404 NOT FOUND'
+ message.
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_HTTPD_PROXY
+ bool "Support for reverse proxy"
+ default y
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_HTTPD
+ help
+ This option allows you to define URLs that will be forwarded
+ to another HTTP server. To setup add the following line to the
+ configuration file
+ P:/url/:http://hostname[:port]/new/path/
+ Then a request to /url/myfile will be forwarded to
+ http://hostname[:port]/new/path/myfile.
+
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_IFCONFIG
bool "ifconfig"
default y
default n
depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_IFCONFIG
help
- Allow "keepalive" and "outfill" support for SLIP. If you're not
+ Allow "keepalive" and "outfill" support for SLIP. If you're not
planning on using serial lines, leave this unchecked.
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_IFCONFIG_MEMSTART_IOADDR_IRQ
depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_IFCONFIG
help
Set the hardware address of this interface, if the device driver
- supports this operation. Currently, we only support the 'ether'
+ supports this operation. Currently, we only support the 'ether'
class.
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_IFCONFIG_BROADCAST_PLUS
Setting this will make ifconfig attempt to find the broadcast
automatically if the value '+' is used.
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_IFENSLAVE
+ bool "ifenslave"
+ default n
+ help
+ Userspace application to bind several interfaces
+ to a logical interface (use with kernel bonding driver).
+
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_IFUPDOWN
bool "ifupdown"
default n
- select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_RUN_PARTS
help
- Activate or deactivate the specified interfaces. This applet makes
+ 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
+ configure network interfaces. Therefore, you will probably also want
to enable either IFCONFIG and ROUTE, or enable
- FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IP and the various IP options. Of
+ FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IP and the various 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.
+ enable these additional options. It is up to you to supply either
+ "ifconfig", "route" and "run-parts" or the "ip" command, either
+ via busybox or via standalone utilities.
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_IFUPDOWN_IFSTATE_PATH
+ string "Absolute path to ifstate file"
+ default n
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_IFUPDOWN
+ help
+ ifupdown keeps state information in a file called ifstate.
+ Typically it is located in /var/run/ifstate, however
+ some distributions tend to put it in other places
+ (debian, for example, uses /etc/network/run/ifstate).
+ This config option defines location of ifstate.
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IP
bool "Use ip applet"
work.
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IPV4
- bool "Enable support for IPv4"
+ bool "Support for IPv4"
default n
depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_IFUPDOWN
help
- If you want busybox to talk IPv4, leave this on.
+ If you want ifup/ifdown to talk IPv4, leave this on.
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IPV6
- bool "Enable support for IPv6"
+ bool "Support for IPv6"
default n
depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_IFUPDOWN && BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_IPV6
help
If you need support for IPv6, turn this option on.
-config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IPX
- bool "Enable support for IPX"
- default n
- depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_IFUPDOWN
- help
- If this option is selected you can use busybox to work with IPX
- networks.
+### UNUSED
+###config FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IPX
+### bool "Support for IPX"
+### default n
+### depends on IFUPDOWN
+### help
+### If this option is selected you can use busybox to work with IPX
+### networks.
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_MAPPING
bool "Enable mapping support"
This enables support for the "mapping" stanza, unless you have
a weird network setup you don't need it.
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_EXTERNAL_DHCP
+ bool "Support for external dhcp clients"
+ default n
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_IFUPDOWN
+ help
+ This enables support for the external dhcp clients. Clients are
+ tried in the following order: dhcpcd, dhclient, pump and udhcpc.
+ Otherwise, if udhcpc applet is enabled, it is used.
+ Otherwise, ifup/ifdown will have no support for DHCP.
+
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_INETD
bool "inetd"
default n
bool "Support RPC services"
default n
depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_INETD
- depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_HAVE_RPC
+ select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_HAVE_RPC
help
Support Sun-RPC based services
default n
help
The "ip" applet is a TCP/IP interface configuration and routing
- utility. You generally don't need "ip" to use busybox with
+ utility. You generally don't need "ip" to use busybox with
TCP/IP.
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_ADDRESS
Add support for rule commands to "ip".
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_SHORT_FORMS
- bool "Support short forms of ip commands."
+ bool "Support short forms of ip commands"
default n
depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_IP
help
ip link -> iplink
ip route -> iproute
ip tunnel -> iptunnel
+ ip rule -> iprule
Say N unless you desparately need the short form of the ip
object commands.
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_RARE_PROTOCOLS
+ bool "Support displaying rarely used link types"
+ default n
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_IP
+ help
+ If you are not going to use links of type "frad", "econet",
+ "bif" etc, you probably don't need to enable this.
+ Ethernet, wireless, infrared, ppp/slip, ip tunnelling
+ link types are supported without this option selected.
+
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_IPADDR
bool
default n
default n
depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_IPCALC
help
- Adds the options hostname, prefix and silent to the output of "ipcalc".
+ Adds the options hostname, prefix and silent to the output of
+ "ipcalc".
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_IPCALC_LONG_OPTIONS
bool "Enable long options"
Renamed interfaces MUST be in the down state.
It is possible to use a file (default: /etc/mactab)
with list of new interface names and MACs.
- Maximum interface name length: IF_NAMESIZE = 16
+ Maximum interface name length: IFNAMSIZ = 16
File fields are separated by space or tab.
File format:
# Comment
new_interface_name XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_NAMEIF_EXTENDED
+ bool "Extended nameif"
+ default n
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_NAMEIF
+ help
+ This extends the nameif syntax to support the bus_info and driver
+ checks. The syntax is compatible to the normal nameif.
+ File format:
+ new_interface_name driver=asix bus=usb-0000:00:08.2-3
+ new_interface_name bus=usb-0000:00:08.2-3 00:80:C8:38:91:B5
+ new_interface_name mac=00:80:C8:38:91:B5
+ new_interface_name 00:80:C8:38:91:B5
+
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_NC
bool "nc"
default y
help
A simple Unix utility which reads and writes data across network
connections.
-
+
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_NETMSG
bool "netmsg"
default y
simple program for sending udp broadcast messages
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_NC_SERVER
- bool "Netcat server options (-lp)"
+ bool "Netcat server options (-l)"
default n
depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_NC
help
help
netstat prints information about the Linux networking subsystem.
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_NETSTAT_WIDE
+ bool "Enable wide netstat output"
+ default y
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_NETSTAT
+ help
+ Add support for wide columns. Useful when displaying IPv6 addresses
+ (-W option).
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_NETSTAT_PRG
+ bool "Enable PID/Program name output"
+ default y
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_NETSTAT
+ help
+ Add support for -p flag to print out PID and program name.
+ +700 bytes of code.
+
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_NSLOOKUP
bool "nslookup"
default y
ping uses the ICMP protocol's mandatory ECHO_REQUEST datagram to
elicit an ICMP ECHO_RESPONSE from a host or gateway.
-config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_FANCY_PING
- bool "Enable fancy ping output"
- default y
- depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_PING
- help
- Make the output from the ping applet include statistics, and at the
- same time provide full support for ICMP packets.
-
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_PING6
bool "ping6"
default y
- depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_IPV6
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_IPV6 && BUSYBOX_CONFIG_PING
help
This will give you a ping that can talk IPv6.
-config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_FANCY_PING6
- bool "Enable fancy ping6 output"
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_FANCY_PING
+ bool "Enable fancy ping output"
default y
- depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_PING6
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_PING
help
- Make the output from the ping6 applet include statistics, and at the
+ Make the output from the ping applet include statistics, and at the
same time provide full support for ICMP packets.
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_PSCAN
+ bool "pscan"
+ default n
+ help
+ Simple network port scanner.
+
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_ROUTE
bool "route"
default y
help
Route displays or manipulates the kernel's IP routing tables.
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_SLATTACH
+ bool "slattach"
+ default n
+ help
+ slattach is a small utility to attach network interfaces to serial
+ lines.
+
+#config TC
+# bool "tc"
+# default n
+# help
+# show / manipulate traffic control settings
+#
+#config FEATURE_TC_INGRESS
+# def_bool n
+# depends on TC
+
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_TELNET
bool "telnet"
default y
depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_TELNET
help
Setting this option will forward the TERM environment variable to the
- remote host you are connecting to. This is useful to make sure that
+ remote host you are connecting to. This is useful to make sure that
things like ANSI colors and other control sequences behave.
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_TELNET_AUTOLOGIN
select BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_SYSLOG
help
A daemon for the TELNET protocol, allowing you to log onto 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 an
- SSH daemon and you trust your network, you may say 'y' here. As a
+ running the daemon. Please keep in mind that the TELNET protocol
+ sends passwords in plain text. If you can't afford the space for an
+ SSH daemon and you trust your network, you may say 'y' here. As a
more secure alternative, you should seriously consider installing the
very small Dropbear SSH daemon instead:
http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html
mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts
You need to be sure that Busybox has LOGIN and
- FEATURE_SUID enabled. And finally, you should make
+ FEATURE_SUID enabled. And finally, you should make
certain that Busybox has been installed setuid root:
chown root.root /bin/busybox
bool "tftp"
default n
help
- This enables the Trivial File Transfer Protocol client program. TFTP
+ This enables the Trivial File Transfer Protocol client program. TFTP
is usually used for simple, small transfers such as a root image
for a network-enabled bootloader.
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_TFTPD
+ bool "tftpd"
+ default n
+ help
+ This enables the Trivial File Transfer Protocol server program.
+ It expects that stdin is a datagram socket and a packet
+ is already pending on it. It will exit after one transfer.
+ In other words: it should be run from inetd in nowait mode,
+ or from udpsvd. Example: "udpsvd -E 0 69 tftpd DIR"
+
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_TFTP_GET
bool "Enable \"get\" command"
default n
- depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_TFTP
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_TFTP || BUSYBOX_CONFIG_TFTPD
help
- Add support for the GET command within the TFTP client. This allows
+ Add support for the GET command within the TFTP client. This allows
a client to retrieve a file from a TFTP server.
+ Also enable upload support in tftpd, if tftpd is selected.
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_TFTP_PUT
bool "Enable \"put\" command"
default n
- depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_TFTP
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_TFTP || BUSYBOX_CONFIG_TFTPD
help
- Add support for the PUT command within the TFTP client. This allows
+ Add support for the PUT command within the TFTP client. This allows
a client to transfer a file to a TFTP server.
+ Also enable download support in tftpd, if tftpd is selected.
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_TFTP_BLOCKSIZE
- bool "Enable \"blocksize\" command"
+ bool "Enable \"blksize\" protocol option"
default n
- depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_TFTP
+ depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_TFTP || BUSYBOX_CONFIG_TFTPD
help
- Allow the client to specify the desired block size for transfers.
+ Allow tftp to specify block size, and tftpd to understand
+ "blksize" option.
-config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_DEBUG_TFTP
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_TFTP_DEBUG
bool "Enable debug"
default n
depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_TFTP
help
- Enable debug settings for tftp. This is useful if you're running
+ 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.
default y
depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_TRACEROUTE
help
- Add some verbosity to traceroute. This includes amongst other things
+ Add some verbosity to traceroute. This includes amongst other things
hostnames and ICMP response types.
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_TRACEROUTE_SOURCE_ROUTE
help
Support authenticated HTTP transfers.
-config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_WGET_IP6_LITERAL
- bool "Enable IPv6 literal addresses"
- default y
- depends on BUSYBOX_CONFIG_WGET && BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_IPV6
- help
- Support IPv6 address literal notation in URLs.
-
config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_WGET_LONG_OPTIONS
bool "Enable long options"
default y
See http://www.zeroconf.org for further details, and "zcip.script"
in the busybox examples.
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_TCPSVD
+ bool "tcpsvd"
+ default n
+ help
+ tcpsvd listens on a TCP port and runs a program for each new
+ connection.
+
+config BUSYBOX_CONFIG_UDPSVD
+ bool "udpsvd"
+ default n
+ help
+ udpsvd listens on an UDP port and runs a program for each new
+ connection.
+
endmenu