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When trying to Create an Openswan connection in networkmanager, it cannot connect due to a missing plugin.

an apt search shows that openswan is using libreswan but for neither name I can find a networkmanager plugin as a package. does the package have an obscure name or is it just no longer available?

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  • Have you tried sudo apt install network-manager-l2tp-gnome ? wiki.archlinux.org/title/Openswan_L2TP/IPsec_VPN_client_setup
    – Daniel T
    Commented Feb 20 at 17:01
  • does not work, I would assume because IPSec/IKEv2 is not the same as L2TP. and no strongswan is not an option because strongswan does not seem to support PSK
    – My1
    Commented Feb 22 at 9:51
  • apt show network-manager-l2tp "with optional IPsec support." If I do apt search network-manager ikev2 I see network-manager-strongswan and strongswan-nm . You can look at the list of swan packages available at packages.ubuntu.com/…
    – Daniel T
    Commented Feb 22 at 10:24
  • yes I saw strongswan but strongswan only does Certificates, Smartcards or EAP, I need PSK
    – My1
    Commented Feb 22 at 10:28

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VPN network-manager-libreswan was never ported to Debian/Ubuntu. It changed its name from NetworkManager-openswan to NetworkManager-libreswan with version 1.2, but is still compatible with openswan.

If you need an IPsec IKEv2 with PSK VPN connection, I think the only solution is to build NetworkManager-libreswan from source code as NetworkManager-strongswan doesn't support PSK.

If you were trying to do an IPsec IKEv1 Xauth (Cisco-style) VPN connection which neither network-manager-l2tp nor network-manager-strongswan can do, you could try network-manager-vpnc which does Cisco-style IPsec IKEv1 Xauth VPN connections.

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