VPN L2TP, swisscom-box-2 and Fedora 37 KDE

I configured my VPN server on my swisscom internet-box 2 as indicated in this documentation

enabling the VPN server:

creating VPN credentials and shared key:

Connection from my Iphone worked immediately, but for my Fedora laptop it was another story.

several discussions link1 link2 helped me to solve my issue with this error message:

pppd[20842]: EAP: Identity prompt "Name"
pppd[20842]: EAP: peer reports authentication failure

The correct settings for me:

VPN connection with credentials information:

disable FPS in IPsec Settings:

select only MSCHAPv2 as authentication method in PPP Settings:

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