Short version: we have servers in another data center and we have an openvpn tunnel between them.

For the first time, I need to hang server on a different subnet from the tunnel server and I'm getting killed trying to add a route.

Box A: 10.129.78.101 Box B: 10.129.68.80 (This is the tunnel server)

For all other 10.129.68.X boxes, adding a route through 10.129.68.80 was easy peasy. Here I'm having a problem. I've added a route to 10.129.68.80 and I can hit it no problem. When I try to use it as a gateway for another route it's puking:

route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
0.0.0.0 10.129.78.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ens32
10.129.68.80 10.129.78.1 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 ens32
10.129.78.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.254.0 U 0 0 0 ens32

Try to add a route and puke city:

ip route add 10.0.8.0/22 via 10.129.68.80 dev ens32
Error: Nexthop has invalid gateway.

Any ideas?

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