OpenVPN ethernet mode

RouterOS General
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Hi!

I’ve configured a mikrotik (sw) with OpenVPN server on port 443 in ethernet mode.
The idea is to make roadwarrior clients working remotely: AFAIK, Windows TAP driver has a limitation that works only in ethernet (bridged) mode. Windows, Linux and Mac can connect smoothly to my configured OpenVPN server.

The next step would be to have a routerboard connected to the above sw-mikrotik via OpenVPN client. I tried to configure the client: the link goes up, but never put in connected state. It receives an IP address from the defined pool, but when I have a look at the routing table, it indicates that the VPN network (10.1.1.0/24) is “unreachable”, thus no ping works. After a while, the connection is dropped and trying to re-established.

I can’t understand why it goes in link-established but can’t recognize it as a working link.
Any idea?

Regards,
Giuseppe

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Here’s the conf:

/interface ovpn-client
name=“ovpn-mypeer” mac-address=00:00:00:00:00:00 max-mtu=1500
connect-to=X.X.X.X port=443 mode=ethernet user=“myuser”
password=“mypassword” profile=ovpn-mypeer certificate=mikrotik-mypeer
auth=sha1 cipher=blowfish128 add-default-route=no

/ppp profile
name=“ovpn-mypeer” remote-address=10.1.1.1 bridge=bridge1
use-compression=default use-vj-compression=default use-encryption=yes
only-one=default change-tcp-mss=default dns-server=208.67.222.222