n.b. over email Tobias, the developer of StrongSwan said to me: "We have absolutely no intentions of ever adding support for L2TP (or IKEv1 for that matter) to our NM plugin. So I doubt there will be any traction on this issue (unless Canonical tracks back and readds the removed Openswan/Libreswan stuff).
You should perhaps consider using a more modern VPN protocol, for instance, IKEv2. <redacted> appliances (at least some of them) support that too." However it is not possible to create "on demand"/random source IPSec VPNs using IKEv2 on the appliances that I'm using, so I'm back tot he beginning again. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1457078 Title: L2TP client support for PSK removed from 15.04/15.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-strongswan/+bug/1457078/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs