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I am trying to connect to a IPSec VPN on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. In the past this worked, but after upgrading from 20.04 it didnt. I deleted the configuration and trying to add it again using the UI.

My connection uses a IPSec group name and shared secret. Where do I enter the IPSec group name?

I followed this: https://github.com/hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn/blob/master/docs/clients.md#linux I tried this: 22.04 l2tp client not working

Edit: I have these installed

$ sudo apt list network-manager-l2tp-gnome
network-manager-l2tp-gnome/jammy,now 1.20.0-1build2 amd64 [installed]

$ sudo apt -a list xl2tpd
xl2tpd/jammy-updates,now 1.3.16-1ubuntu0.1 amd64 [installed]
xl2tpd/jammy 1.3.16-1 amd64
Carol Eisen
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    Note that `L2TP` alone is *not* IPSec, IPSec tends to use `L2TP` but is *not* just L2TP plain. You need to know if your IPSec VPN is a Cisco VPN or IKEv1 VPN (which needs `network-manager-vpnc-gnome`) or a generic IPSec setup that uses IKE2 (which needs Strongswan - `network-manager-strongswan-gnome`). If you do not know the type of VPN connection in use, then you cannot properly determine which of the IPSec VPN clients you need, though you should probably try with `network-manager-strongswan-gnome` first which is the stronger/newer IPSec library / suite in Debian and Ubuntu. – Thomas Ward Jan 16 '23 at 01:08
  • @ThomasWard Thanks for your explanation. I will try to google more with this knowledge and try out strongswam. It is a Cisco VPN. – Carol Eisen Jan 16 '23 at 15:32
  • if it's a Cisco VPN you will need to use the `vpnc` option that I stated. If you *know* it's a Cisco VPN IKEv1 endpoint then you need to use `vpnc`. – Thomas Ward Jan 17 '23 at 03:37

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