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Mirimir
mirimir at riseup.net
Tue Aug 2 07:30:01 PDT 2016
On 08/02/2016 07:20 AM, 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).
>
> But I might be missing something here, so again, comments welcome.
OK, I get it. I've never used IPsec. OpenVPN doesn't do many to many.
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