diff --git a/nixos/modules/virtualisation/openvswitch.nix b/nixos/modules/virtualisation/openvswitch.nix
index 325f6f5b43f..436a375fb5e 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/virtualisation/openvswitch.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/virtualisation/openvswitch.nix
@@ -36,17 +36,6 @@ in {
         Open vSwitch package to use.
       '';
     };
-
-    ipsec = mkOption {
-      type = types.bool;
-      default = false;
-      description = ''
-        Whether to start racoon service for openvswitch.
-        Supported only if openvswitch version is less than 2.6.0.
-        Use <literal>virtualisation.vswitch.package = pkgs.openvswitch-lts</literal>
-        for a version that supports ipsec over GRE.
-      '';
-    };
   };
 
   config = mkIf cfg.enable (let
@@ -65,7 +54,7 @@ in {
       installPhase = "mkdir -p $out";
     };
 
-  in (mkMerge [{
+  in {
     environment.systemPackages = [ cfg.package ];
     boot.kernelModules = [ "tun" "openvswitch" ];
 
@@ -142,48 +131,14 @@ in {
       };
     };
 
-  }
-  (mkIf (cfg.ipsec && (versionOlder cfg.package.version "2.6.0")) {
-    environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.ipsecTools ];
+  });
 
-    services.racoon.enable = true;
-    services.racoon.configPath = "${runDir}/ipsec/etc/racoon/racoon.conf";
-
-    networking.firewall.extraCommands = ''
-      iptables -I INPUT -t mangle -p esp -j MARK --set-mark 1/1
-      iptables -I INPUT -t mangle -p udp --dport 4500 -j MARK --set-mark 1/1
-    '';
-
-    systemd.services.ovs-monitor-ipsec = {
-      description = "Open_vSwitch Ipsec Daemon";
-      wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
-      requires = [ "ovsdb.service" ];
-      before = [ "vswitchd.service" "racoon.service" ];
-      environment.UNIXCTLPATH = "/tmp/ovsdb.ctl.sock";
-      serviceConfig = {
-        ExecStart = ''
-          ${cfg.package}/bin/ovs-monitor-ipsec \
-            --root-prefix ${runDir}/ipsec \
-            --pidfile /run/openvswitch/ovs-monitor-ipsec.pid \
-            --monitor --detach \
-            unix:/run/openvswitch/db.sock
-        '';
-        PIDFile = "/run/openvswitch/ovs-monitor-ipsec.pid";
-        # Use service type 'forking' to correctly determine when ovs-monitor-ipsec is ready.
-        Type = "forking";
-      };
-
-      preStart = ''
-        rm -r ${runDir}/ipsec/etc/racoon/certs || true
-        mkdir -p ${runDir}/ipsec/{etc/racoon,etc/init.d/,usr/sbin/}
-        ln -fs ${pkgs.ipsecTools}/bin/setkey ${runDir}/ipsec/usr/sbin/setkey
-        ln -fs ${pkgs.writeScript "racoon-restart" ''
-        #!${pkgs.runtimeShell}
-        /run/current-system/sw/bin/systemctl $1 racoon
-        ''} ${runDir}/ipsec/etc/init.d/racoon
-      '';
-    };
-  })]));
+  imports = [
+    (mkRemovedOptionModule [ "virtualisation" "vswitch" "ipsec" ] ''
+      OpenVSwitch IPSec functionality has been removed, because it depended on racoon,
+      which was removed from nixpkgs, because it was abanoded upstream.
+    '')
+  ];
 
   meta.maintainers = with maintainers; [ netixx ];