I have submitted a bugzilla entry with these improvements to the radius auth helper of squid 3.2: - changed the default timeout from 30 to 10 seconds. The docs say its 10, and I think 30 is too long. - added the possibility to specify the timeout in the config file, before it was only read from the command line. - added a new parameter which allows access when no response is received from the RADIUS server, it is disabled by default to have a backward-compatible behavior. - added error messages to be shown in error templates via %m. Please review it and merge into squid if it looks fine: http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3609 Best regards, Alan