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190 802.1X – Technical Guideline

2.) Disabling Microsoft Windows 802.1X compliant software

Since Microsoft Windows ships with its own 802.1X compliant client software, the Client service needs
to disable it before starting the WPA supplicant. The Microsoft 802.1X compliant client software
consists of:

Once those services have been stopped by the client, the client will start the driver service that is
necessary for handling requests from the switch.

After all supplicants have been terminated, they will be (re-) enabled. To verify for a successful
disabling process, verbose output is available:

3.) Starting the wpa-supplicant

The " Client" service will start a WPA supplicant, named "wpa_supplicant.exe", for all supported
network interfaces given following circumstances:

•

"1.1.A is set to enabled

•

"1.1.B is set to enabled for the network interface to use 802.1X is set to
enabled

Table 14–5

Microsoft 802.1X compliant client software

Service Friendly Name

Service Name

Wired AutoConfig

• WZO (prior to Windows Vista)
• dot3svc (Windows Vista)

WLAN AutoConfig

Wlansvc

ndisuio

User Mode Input Output Driver

Fig. 14–4 phions.log

Table 14–6

Key 8021XMonitor

Item

Description

Path

HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\phion\phionvpn\settings

Key

8021XMonitor

Value

Enables or disables 8021X authentication on the client computer (Default=1)

• 0 - disabled
• 1 - enabled

Changes of this value take effect immediately.

[009002007000] -->checking for WZO & Ndisuio and stopping them
[009002008000] ==> CheckAndStopService(dot3svc, true)
[009002008000] ==> CheckAndStopService(Wlansvc, true)
[009002008000] ==> CheckAndStopService(Ndisuio, true)
[009002006000] ==> togglephionuio
[009002006008] phionuio already running / phionuio started
[009002006000] <== togglephionuio
[009002007010] <-- finished WZO & Ndisuio service check