Group Name is for IPsec Extended authentication (XAuth). Xauth support was never implemented in network-manager-l2tp and it doesn't make sense as XAuth doesn't use L2TP, so Group Name was removed from the IPsec configuration dialog box.
So a summary for the differences in the two VPN connections are: - IPsec XAuth uses XAuth for the user credentials which involves a Group Name. - L2TP/IPsec uses L2TP for the PPP user credentials. The Gnome Project provides a VPN IPsec IKEv1 VPN client with Group Name called network-manager-libreswan : https://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-libreswan/plain/appdata/libreswan.png Did Group Name ever work for you in the old network-manager-l2tp? If it did, it was for something other than XAuth. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1726135 Title: need to use group name To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-l2tp/+bug/1726135/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
