For an operating system that touts itself as the most advanced in the world yet can't connect to most of the major VPN appliances seems like something straight out of the Microsoft play book.

Obviously I have been struggling (and according to the forums and blogs I am not alone) for quite some to establish a VPN connection to a Sonicwall device over L2TP using Mac's built VPN capabilities.  After many failed attempts is appears that all of the research on the web confirms that it can't be done out of the box and I need to use IPSec VPN.  Of course the most advanced OS in the world does not support IPSec VPN access so I am experimenting with IPSecuritas and so far have managed to get it very close but as of right now still no joy.