OpenVPN vs IPSec

[Eugene Grosbein]

19.11.2017 21:30, Victor Sudakov wrote:

> I have a personal success story of establishing transport mode IPSec
> between Windows and FreeBSD/racoon. But when other OSes are involved,
> I have the impression that there is no pure IPSec, it's usually
> IPSec+L2TP, and that's where the FreeBSD part becomes complicated
> (interaction between ipsec, mpd5 and racoon is required).

No interaction between mpd5 and racoon is required to make IPSec+L2TP working.
In fact, mpd5 starts its part only when IKE/IPSEC part is already completed
and runs its unencrypted L2TP protocol over existing IPSec tunnel without knowning it.