From e7c105a7b46e7ffbaf3e605558bd950e6dd45eaf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Donald Sharp Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 09:20:38 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Add bgp neighbor password command The bgp neighbor password command was not documented additionally the fact that you may need to instruct the kernel to have more memory available for tcp sockets when using this feature on a large number of peers. Signed-off-by: Donald Sharp --- doc/user/bgp.rst | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/user/bgp.rst b/doc/user/bgp.rst index 97ce036f52..2d4d0c4945 100644 --- a/doc/user/bgp.rst +++ b/doc/user/bgp.rst @@ -1045,6 +1045,15 @@ Configuring Peers .. index:: neighbor PEER port PORT .. clicmd:: neighbor PEER port PORT +.. index:: [no] neighbor PEER password PASSWORD +.. clicmd:: [no] neighbor PEER password PASSWORD + + Set a MD5 password to be used with the tcp socket that is being used + to connect to the remote peer. Please note if you are using this + command with a large number of peers on linux you should consider + modifying the `net.core.optmem_max` sysctl to a larger value to + avoid out of memory errors from the linux kernel. + .. index:: neighbor PEER send-community .. clicmd:: neighbor PEER send-community -- 2.39.5