"Login failed for user" error not recorded in error log when attempted from Windows 2022

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SSMS (18.12.1) & ODBC (Native Client 11, ODBC 17) on Windows 2022 login failed and nothing in SQL Server Error log. Message from SQL Server is " Login failed for user... " even with known good creds , SQL Server Authentication.

Interestingly, there is no error recorded in the SQL Server Error log for login attempts from this Windows 2022 client. Wireshark logs a response packet "Login failed for user..." coming from the active node in the failover cluster just before the conversation is ended but there is no record of this in the SQL Server Error log. Logins from other systems (older versions of Windows) are successful with same creds and failed attempts are logged from older clients when improper creds are used.

SQL Server 2012 Failover Cluster on Windows 2012-R2 SSMS 18.12.1 on Windows Server 2022 (TLS 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 enabled) SQL Server Authentication Cluster IP is NAT'd