I thought this was a bug when Win 8 first came out and fixed in code
7.2.111.3, sometime around October 2012.


On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Ball, Erik <[email protected]> wrote:

>  We are curious what Cisco WLAN controller code you are running (5508
> controllers?)
>
>
>
> With the number of Windows 8 systems that are coming in the door from
> students, we are fairly certain that we are hitting this bug, which we have
> been resolving with client drivers….
>
>
>
> CSCua29504 - 802.11w-capable client fails pairwise key handshake with AES.
>
> https://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch/bug/CSCua29504/?referring_site=ss
>
>
>
> Symptom:
>
> An 802.11w-capable client, such as a PC running Windows 8, cannot connect
> to an SSID using WPA or WPA2 key management with AES encryption. The AP
> will send the M1 pairwise key message, but the PC will never respond with
> M2.
>
> With "debug client" in effect, a message similar to the following will be
> seen:
>
> *dot1xMsgTask: Jun 12 20:23:37.471: 00:11:22:33:44:55 Retransmit failure
> for EAPOL-Key M1 to mobile 00:11:22:33:44:55, retransmit count 5, mscb
> deauth count 0
>
> Conditions:
>
> Client is 802.11w-capable, wireless infrastructure is CUWN, SSID using
> WPA2/AES or WPA/AES. This bug affects CUWN 5.2.178.0 and above, but not
> CUWN 4.2 or earlier, nor does it affect autonomous IOS APs.
>
> Workaround:
>
> Use WPA/TKIP or WPA2/TKIP instead. Note that this will limit the client to
> 802.11g/802.11a data rates.
>
> Another workaround is to use a Windows 7, rather than Windows 8 driver,
> for the adapter.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Erik
>
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