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Comment by yjftsjthsd-h

I suspect I'm in a bubble, so perhaps someone might tell me what I'm missing...

> racoon2 is a system to exchange and install security parameters for IPsec. It consists of an IKEv1/IKEv2 key exchange daemon, a security policy management daemon, and a Kerberos-based key exchange daemon.

When would you use this over wireguard? There's a hint in

> for built-in Windows, iOS and Android VPN clients.

where I can see value if you want to provide a VPN without needing to install anything on the client, but that doesn't seem like a big thing to me. Or maybe legacy ipsec setups?

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