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How to install

There is oficial Ubuntu PPA there https://launchpad.net/~seriy-pr/+archive/network-manager-l2tp

    sudo apt-add-repository ppa:seriy-pr/network-manager-l2tp
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install network-manager-l2tp-gnome

This possibly works for debian, I don't really know.

For other distributions you can try

    ./autogen.sh
    make
    sudo make install

How to report bugs

Include following information in bugreport:

Output of the following commands:

    lsb_release -a # or `cat /etc/fedora-release` on Fedora
    uname -a
    # on APT-based distributives
    apt-cache policy network-manager-l2tp xl2tpd ppp openswan
    # Оn RPM distributives use
    rpm -q NetworkManager-l2tp xl2tpd ppp NetworkManager-openswan libreswan

Add log output in debug mode:

In one terminal start command

    # Ubuntu
    sudo /usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-l2tp-service --debug
    # Fedora
    sudo /usr/libexec/nm-l2tp-service --debug

In other terminal start command

    # on Debian / Ubuntu
    tail -f -n 0 /var/log/syslog
    # on Fedora / other RPM-based
    tail -f -n 0 /var/log/messages

Start your VPN connection and wait while it establishes or fails and plus 5-10 sec. Then copy output from previous commands.

Attention: in output of first command (nm-l2tp-service --debug) can appears your password! Remove it!

FAQ

does it works with KDE?

The daemon part of this plugin can work on Gnome and on KDE, but GUI is only Gnome-compatible. You may be interested in relatively new plasma-nm project, which supports our l2tp daemon. See /1/ /2/