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@@ -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