Windows 7 supplicant issues

estadlercisco — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 07:24:12 GMT

I'm having an issue with a windows 7 device and 802.1x authentication only on boot. If i enable and disable the network adapter authentication succeeds and AnyConnect is able to check the machine for posture. If I don't toggle the port the device is MABd. the machine authentication happens then once the user logs in the user has to toggle his NIC.

Information:

Windows 7 SP1

All 802.1X patches installed from here: https://supportforums.cisco.com/blog/12256681/getting-past-intermittentunexplained-8021x-problems-windows-7

Using the native Windows supplicant

Set to Machine or user authentication

EAP-TLS with machine and user certificates

Troubleshooting steps:

Uninstalled JunOS pulse VPN client

tried restarting wired autoconfig service without toggling the NIC, this changes the behavior slightly but doesn't fix it completely.

Collected debugs

I collected some debugs from the 2960X running 15.2.2e6 when the machine booted up and attached them to this post

I have seen this problem

nspasov — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 23:54:22 GMT

I have seen this problem before and it was in fact due to missing Windows Hotfixes. The outlined list in the link that you provided has some but not all of the ones that I had to use in the past. Here is the link that I have used before and had always resolved my issue(s) when deploying ISE:

http://robert.penz.name/555/list-of-ieee-802-1x-hotfixes-for-windows-7/

Give those a try and let us know if you are still having issues.

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Windows 7 supplicant issues

I have seen this problem