CONFIG_NET_DROP_MONITOR: Network packet drop alerting service

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_NET_DROP_MONITOR has multiple definitions:

Network packet drop alerting service found in net/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_NET_DROP_MONITOR:

• prompt: Network packet drop alerting service
• type: tristate
• depends on: CONFIG_INET && CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS
• defined in net/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 3.5–3.19, 4.0–4.20, 5.0–5.19, 6.0–6.12
• modules built: drop_monitor

Help text

This feature provides an alerting service to userspace in the event that packets are discarded in the network stack. Alerts are broadcast via netlink socket to any listening user space process. If you don't need network drop alerts, or if you are ok just checking the various proc files and other utilities for drop statistics, say N here.

Network packet drop alerting service found in net/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_NET_DROP_MONITOR:

• prompt: Network packet drop alerting service
• type: bool
• depends on: CONFIG_INET && CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL && CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS
• defined in net/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 2.6.30–2.6.39, 3.0–3.4
• modules built: drop_monitor

Help text

This feature provides an alerting service to userspace in the event that packets are discarded in the network stack. Alerts are broadcast via netlink socket to any listening user space process. If you don't need network drop alerts, or if you are ok just checking the various proc files and other utilities for drop statistics, say N here.

Hardware

LKDDb

Raw data from LKDDb:

• lkddb module drop_monitor CONFIG_NET_DROP_MONITOR : net/Kconfig : "Network packet drop alerting service" # in 3.5–3.19, 4.0–4.20, 5.0–5.19, 6.0–6.12

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• Linux Kernel Driver DataBase (LKDDb)

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