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37.9 radius deadtime
To improve RADIUS response times when some servers might be unavailable and cause the 
unavailable servers to be skipped immediately, use the radius-server deadtime command in global 
configuration mode. To set dead-time to default value, use the no form of this command. 
 
Command Syntax 
radius-server deadtime minutes 
no radius-server deadtime 
minutes
Length of time, in minutes, for which a RADIUS server is skipped over by 
transaction requests, the range is 1 to 20. 
 
Default 
5 minutes.
 
Command Mode 
Global configuration
 
Usage 
Use this command to cause the switch to mark as “dead” any RADIUS servers that fail to respond to 
authentication requests, thus avoiding the wait for the request to time out before trying the next 
configured server. A RADIUS server marked as “dead” is skipped by additional requests for the 
duration of minutes or unless there are no servers not marked “dead”. 
 
Examples 
The following is sample output from the radius deadtime command: 
Switch(config)# radius deadtime 10 
 
Related Commands 
radius-server host
37.10 radius-server host
To specify a RADIUS server host, use the radius-server host command in global configuration mode. 
To delete the specified RADIUS host, use the no form of this command. 
 
Command Syntax 
radius-server host ip-address [auth-port port-number] [timeout seconds] [retransmit retries] [key 
string] 
no radius-server host ip-address [auth-port port-number] 
ip-address
IP address of the RADIUS server host.
