Multiple OpenVPN Servers with different firewall rules. Please help.

[fosslibrarian]

I am trying to set up two different openvpn servers with two different sets of firewall rules. I have read that you can simply disable the rules in the OpenVPN firewall section and assign the individual devices (ovpns1, ovpns2) to interfaces and then apply the firewall rules there. The issue is that when I do this, I can connect to the firewall fine. It assigns me an IP and everything, but I can't do anything. I cannot reach any machines within my lan (the primary purpose of these VPN's are to allow lan access from the road). I also cannot reach the internet when connected.

Everything works fine if the rules are on the OpenVPN interface. What is really confusing for me is that if I put the rules on the ovpns1 interface and force the gateway to be my wan gateway, I can then connect to the internet, but still not to machines on my lan.

I am pretty out of ideas and would appreciate any help in figuring this out.

[fosslibrarian]

And then I did figure it out. It turns out that opnsense created a dynamic gateway for the vpn1 interface when I assigned the ovpns1 to it. Disabling this gateway made it work.