Connecting without the secret.

Because of my issue connecting to Untangle v11 with ios I fired up a Win 8.1 instance and used the built in vpn client, I selected the Microsoft option from the dropdown. It was curious that it does not have the option for the secret in the L2TP settings, but I guess that doesn't matter because I was able to establish a connection with both Untangle v10 and v11 with only the username and password.

So now I'm thoroughly confused.

Untangle v10; ios connects via l2tp with the secret, the ios client requires the secret, win 8.1 connects via l2tp without the secret.

Untangle v11; ios fails to connect via l2tp, win 8.1 connects via l2tp without the secret.