Issue in pinging machines in subnet for pfsense Openvpn server

Question

During the testing of pfsense openvpn server I faced issues in pinging machines in subnet of pfsense server.

Setup

• Internet router provided by ISP. IP: 192.168.1.254
• My Laptop. Ubuntu 9.04. IP: 192.168.1.105
• pfsense running as a virtual machine (vmware player). WAN IP: 192.168.1.239, LAN IP: 192.168.1.233
• Another virtual machine (vmware player) running with IP: 192.168.1.209

OpenVPN Setup

• TUN interface
• Tunnel network: 10.0.9.0/24
• push "route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0" in place

Test

OpenVPN client on Windows XP tries to connect to openvpn server & tries to ping 192.168.1.209

Observations

• Connection with the openvpn server gets successfully established.
• Client can ping 192.168.1.239 & 192.168.1.233 addresses.
• Client is also able to ping 192.168.1.105 (the machine on which the pfsenseissue vm is running)
• But client is not able to ping 192.168.1.209 (another virtual machine) or 192.168.1.254 (internet gateway on server side)

I dont know why such behavior is observed. Appreciate if anybody can offer some explanation.

Thanks, Adish