Catalyst Radius Server Timeout not working as expected

[kschuster]

On a Catalyst 2950G-48-EI, IOS V12.1(22)EA3, the Radius Server Timeout does not work as expected.

If the radius server is not reachable, I want to use as fallback for the console login the line password of line con0.

I set the radius-server timeout to 1 sec and the retransmit to 0. If the Radius server is not reachable, the actual timeout is not 1 sec, as I expect, but more than 10 secs.

With values of timeout=2 and retransmit=3 the actual timeout is not 8 secs but more than 30 secs.

Who can explain this behaviour? Is it a bug ?

My config commands:

....

aaa new-model

aaa authentication login default group radius line

aaa accounting exec default start-stop group radius

.....

radius-server host 10.1.100.14 auth-port 1812 acct-port 1813

radius-server key xxxx

radius-server timeout 1

radius-server retransmit 0

.....

line con 0

password pppp

.....

Regards,

K.Schuster

[umedryk]

This is not a bug, as far as I know, in fact, this depends on various other settings also ...

[kschuster]

... would be interesting to know on what settings it depends, and how it behaves.