FortiClient on New Windows 11 laptop connects on WiFi but fails on wired network

Is there any more information on this issue?

With HP laptops I am having the same issue on Win 11. Wirelessly I have no issue, but on a wired connection on the same network I now get the "vpn connection failure" error.
This has only been the case for Win 11 installations and I have had the same problem on 4 newly installed computers.

Now I have been able to get it working by installing an old driver for the ethernet adapter, but there has to be an easier workaround or even a solution by now...

Hello @avaknin,

Please try downloading Forticlient from below link.

Product Downloads | Fortinet Product Downloads | Support

Or you can download from the support portal, latest forticlient available is 7.2.1

You can try with these new version of forticlient.

I also have an Asus notebook with a Lenovo USB-C dock (not Thunderbold) Windows 11. I also have the problem that when I am connected via the LAN cable, then the VPN does not work. Over WLAN it works without any problems. This problem exists since at least October 2022. With an old driver it works until this is updated.

It can not be that Fortinet does not manage to fix the problem for a year ...

did anyone find a soution to this?

Installing the older version of the realtek driver (Lenovo Docking station) works, but is not that great of a solution. The newest version of the VPN-only client 7.0.9.0493 is installed.

Hi @avaknin,

There is some cases where Window 11 cannot work with FortiClient accordingly. Can you please try with wifi or download this window driver 10.59.20 if you are using Realtek adapter

https://www.realtek.com/en/component/zoo/category/network-interface-controllers-10-100-1000m-gigabit-ethernet-usb-3-0-software

That was among the first things I tried and it made no difference for me at all. So far, the only working solution I know of is to revert to a Windows 10 version of the driver, as others in this thread have suggested.