What is the general consensus on using your firewall device as a VPN host as well? Let me explain a bit more...
Until recently I ran a pair of older Soekris boxes with OpenBSD on them. One was my firewall while the other was an OpenVPN host. This worked quite well, other than having to deal with maintenance and upkeep of two different devices. However I just upgraded my firewall to a much more powerful device and am wondering if I should stick with having another unit for my VPN gateway or just install OpenVPN directly on the firewall. At work we use a Cisco device which is both our firewall and VPN host, so obviously Cisco considers this a valid and safe configuration, but I'm curious to the thoughts of a group more dedicated to security then corporate America is... Thanks, Peter
