Inevitable newbie question #001 - IPSEC vs OPEN VPN

[Spectrum48k]

It would appear that IPSEC offers much better performance than Open VPN, due to bottlenecks in Open VPN's design, TAP, etc..

So my provider offers IPSEC, which begs the question, why would I choose Open VPN over IPSEC? Are their limitations to IPSEC?

For example I want to use routing policy so that certain IP addresses go through VPN and some don't

Can anyone elaborate please?

[jimp]

Currently, you cannot policy route with IPsec. If you want to send any Internet-bound traffic over IPsec, then all of your Internet-bound traffic must go over IPsec.

[Spectrum48k]

Ah, I see. Thanks for the info.