On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 10:03 AM Andreas Karlsson <andreas@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.