Switched to a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.9 and that solved the issue very nicely for me (also a big number of other Ubuntu-bugs).
So that is my best tips to anyone still hoping to see this get fixed, switch away from Ubuntu because this bug is from 2008! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/264691 Title: Please add NM option for connecting to L2TP IPSEC VPN Status in NetworkManager: Confirmed Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “network-manager” package in Debian: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: network-manager Missing feature: You cannot connect to a (Microsoft) L2TP IPSEC VPN with Network Manager. The server I want to connect to expects a login / password and a PSK. When you do a connection in XP you can see the following details on a connection: Device name: L2TP Server type: PPP Authentication: MS CHAP v2 IPSEC Encryption: IPSEC ESP 3DES Compression: MPPC To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/network-manager/+bug/264691/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp