I have done some reading up on this and none of the answers fully fixes my issue.Particularly, this thread got me some of the way along:ssh into a server which is connected to a VPN serviceBut the problem here is that I am being asked to add an ip rule including my default gateway.  However the VPS shows a gateway of * or 0.0.0.0 when I check with route or netstat.  ip route shows:default dev venet0  scope linkAnd of course that doesn't tell me anything either.So just to restate the problem:I have a VPS running in the cloud that works great as an SSH server.  I want to use it as an OpenVPN client as well, and still be able to access it via SSH.  In fact, I want to create a Socks proxy using SSH.Server is running Debian 8 Stable.  Thank you.
SSH into VPS running OpenVPN Client
ssh;iptables;openvpn;proxy;vps