On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 03:20:00PM +0200, rysiek wrote: > Dnia wtorek, 2 sierpnia 2016 04:50:53 CEST Mirimir pisze: > > > tl;dr setting up IPsec is a pain in the arse, so by the power of > > > way too many lines of Bash it has been made simpler. Comments, pull > > > requests, criticism welcome. > > > > I presume that this is a flavor of IPsec that NSA can't pwn. > > Hopefully. If anyone has more info, please share! > > > But why do we need IPsec? What's the advantage over OpenVPN? > > I needed an encrypted back-end link between several servers, so that even if > any set of them goes down, encrypted comms keep working between all of the > rest. > > OpenVPN felt more like client-server thingy, more slated towards a star > topology. IPsec is node-node (at least in this particular usecase).
That was my impression too - I used openvpn for a year or two some years back. Was always slightly frustrating. Needs another layer for auto configuring or something. I need to check out openswan/ipsec to be able to compare though..
