OpenVPN interface IP is being used as gateway IP

[rpthms]

Hi all,

After I added an OPT1 interface to use the ovpnc1 interface, I noticed that the gateway address for OPT1 is the same as the ovpnc1's IP (172.27.120.2), instead of it using the OpenVPN server's address (172.27.120.1). Since, the gateway and the interface IP are the same, dpinger is just sending ICMP packets to the local interface giving me 0.1ms as the response time.

In the screenshots, I have renamed OPT1 to VPN.

Have I made any errors in my configuration for this to happen?

[Rico]

You can monitor any IP you like: System -> Routing -> Edit your OpenVPN Gateway

-Rico

[rpthms]

Yeah, I know I can monitor any IP. I just wanted to know, why is the gateway using the interface's IP? Is it a bug? When I use ifconfig to check ovpnc1's status, it show's that the proper gateway IP (172.27.120.1)

ifconfig output (My reply is getting marked as spam when I post the ifconfig output here, for some reason) : https://pastebin.com/5DPZN3JJ

[rpthms]

Even in the logs, I can see that the server is pushing its own address as the gateway, yet pfSense does not use it as the gateway IP:

Dec 21 02:45:36 	openvpn 	67745 	PUSH: Received control message: 'PUSH_REPLY,route-gateway 172.27.120.1,topology subnet,ping 10,ping-restart 120,ifconfig 172.27.120.2 255.255.255.0,peer-id 0,cipher AES-256-GCM'