If you don't know what to answer to all the questions asked during the make phase, then just accept the defaults, which will be just fine in the majority of the cases. What you are asked here are a bunch of questions relating to the kind of network protocols that you have enabled in your kernel. The default answers will enable the tools from this package to work with the most common protocols such as TCP, PPP and a bunch of others. You still need to actually enable these protocols in the kernel. What you do here is merely telling the programs to be able to use those protocols, but it's up to the kernel to make them available to the system. Compile the package: make If you intend to accept the default settings, you may skip the questions generated by make by running yes "" | make instead. Finish installing the package: make install