On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 10:03 AM Andreas Karlsson <andr...@proxel.se> wrote: > On 1/3/23 04:11, Thomas Munro wrote: > > [...] While adding > > the GUC I couldn't help wondering why RADIUS even needs a timeout > > separate from authentication_timeout; another way to go here would be > > to remove it completely, but that'd be a policy change (removing the 3 > > second timeout we always had). Thoughts? > > It was some time since I last looked at the code but my impression was > that the reason for having a separate timeout is that you can try the > next server after the first one timed out (multiple radius servers are > allowed). But I wonder if that really is a useful feature or if someone > just was too clever or it just was an accidental feature.
Ah! Thanks, now that makes sense.