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With IPSec native client in MacOS, there are several problems:

- multiple users on the same machine cannot have their own credentials for the same tunnel; you have to create several tunnels and each user sees all of them. Obviously, you cannot save password then.

- if you want to setup routing for your L2TP split-tunel, you have to create bash scripts (ip-up, ip-down) in /etc/ppp. Not even Linux makes you to do this by hand.

Compared to this, Wireguard for Mac is much more polished.




Why L2TP and not IKEv2?


Depends on the other side, too.

Otherwise, a good question for Ubiquity, why they don't support IKEv2 (among other things), when they are using strongswan underneath anyway.




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