Hi everyone,

So I have a VPN pointing to an home server running 24/7 at 192.168.1.60.

I am using network manger to import the wireguard configuration on my client.

nmcli connection import type wireguard file home.conf

On the client when connecting to another wifi, I couldn't ping the server address, because at the time I thought that since they were using the same subnet 192.168.1.X, the router assumedthat It was a local ip, adding the route manually to my client worked:

sudo ip route add 192.168.1.60/32 via 10.8.0.1 dev home

Later I started thinking that since I have 0.0.0.0/0 in the Allowed Ips, all of my traffic should go by the vpn correct ?

but my route still defaults to the local wifi not the vpn gateway:

$ ip route
default via 192.168.1.254 dev wlp4s0 proto dhcp src 192.168.1.79 metric 600
10.8.0.0/24 dev home proto kernel scope link src 10.8.0.2 metric 10
169.254.0.0/16 dev home scope link metric 1000
192.168.1.0/24 dev wlp4s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.79 metric 600

shouldn't the default be the 10.8.0.0 line ?

Do I need to run this command every time I enable the Network Manager profile:

sudo ip route replace default via 10.8.0.1 dev home

The output of nmcli:

$ nmcli
wlp4s0: connected to MEO-FAFD00
        "Intel 8260"
        wifi (iwlwifi), 14:AB:C5:84:50:67, hw, mtu 1500
        ip4 default, ip6 default
        inet4 192.168.1.79/24
        route4 192.168.1.0/24 metric 600
        route4 default via 192.168.1.254 metric 600
        inet6 2001:8a0:e953:b600:2b47:f53f:cfd6:1f13/64
        inet6 fe80::bd36:f271:51dd:f0b3/64
        route6 fe80::/64 metric 1024
        route6 2001:8a0:e953:b600::/64 metric 600
        route6 2001:8a0:e953:b600::/64 via fe80::ce19:a8ff:fefa:fcff metric 605
        route6 default via fe80::ce19:a8ff:fefa:fcff metric 600

lo: connected (externally) to lo
        "lo"
        loopback (unknown), 00:00:00:00:00:00, sw, mtu 65536
        inet4 127.0.0.1/8
        inet6 ::1/128

home: connected to home
        "home"
        wireguard, sw, mtu 1420
        inet4 10.8.0.2/24
        route4 default metric 10
        route4 10.8.0.0/24 metric 10
        route4 169.254.0.0/16 metric 1000

My home.conf(removed the private and public keys).

[Interface]
PrivateKey = 
Address = 10.8.0.2/24
DNS = 1.1.1.1

[Peer]
PublicKey = 
PresharedKey = 
AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0, ::/0
PersistentKeepalive = 0
Endpoint =  MY_HOME_EXTERNAL_IP:51820