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CONFIG_NET_SOCKETS_OFFLOAD

Offload Socket APIs [EXPERIMENTAL]

Type: bool

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Enables direct offloading of socket operations to dedicated TCP/IP hardware. This feature is intended to save resources by bypassing the Zephyr TCP/IP stack in the case where there is only one network interface required in the system, providing full BSD socket offload capability. As a result, it bypasses any potential IP routing that Zephyr might provide between multiple network interfaces. See NET_OFFLOAD for a more deeply integrated approach which offloads from the net_context() API within the Zephyr IP stack.

Direct dependencies

NET_SOCKETS && NETWORKING

(Includes any dependencies from if’s and menus.)

Defaults

No defaults. Implicitly defaults to n.

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Kconfig definition

At subsys/net/lib/sockets/Kconfig:104

Included via Kconfig:10 → Kconfig.zephyr:39 → subsys/Kconfig:24 → subsys/net/Kconfig:84 → subsys/net/lib/Kconfig:29

Menu path: (top menu) → Networking → Network Libraries → BSD Sockets compatible API

config NET_SOCKETS_OFFLOAD
    bool
    prompt "Offload Socket APIs [EXPERIMENTAL]" if NET_SOCKETS && NETWORKING
    select NET_SOCKETS_POSIX_NAMES if NET_SOCKETS && NETWORKING
    depends on NET_SOCKETS && NETWORKING
    help
      Enables direct offloading of socket operations to dedicated TCP/IP
      hardware.
      This feature is intended to save resources by bypassing the Zephyr
      TCP/IP stack in the case where there is only one network interface
      required in the system, providing full BSD socket offload capability.
      As a result, it bypasses any potential IP routing that Zephyr might
      provide between multiple network interfaces.
      See NET_OFFLOAD for a more deeply integrated approach which offloads
      from the net_context() API within the Zephyr IP stack.

(Definitions include propagated dependencies, including from if’s and menus.)