Configurable grace period for unresponsive RADIUS servers

You can use the timeout-grace statement at the [edit access radius-options] hierarchy level to configure a grace period that determines when an unresponsive RADIUS authentication server is marked as down or unreachable. When the server fails to respond to any of the attempts made for an authentication request, it times out, the time is noted, and the grace period begins. If the server is unresponsive for subsequent authentication requests, the grace period is checked each time the server times out. When the check determines that the grace period has expired, the server is marked as down or unreachable. You can configure the grace period in the range 0 through 30 seconds; the default is 10 seconds. Use a short grace period to declare servers unavailable sooner and direct requests to available servers. Use a long grace period to give unresponsive servers more opportunities to respond. In earlier releases, the grace period is 10 seconds and is not configurable.