Adding a default gateway to linux does not take affect and it just uses the

I have a server and a firewall in a cloud environment, the details are as follows,

with the following details for each component,

As this is based in the cloud, I do not have any control of the default gateway and cannot make any changes to it. I would like to route external traffic through the firewall by setting the default gateway on the server as the firewall’s IP. I did this by running the following command,

ip route add default via 192.168.232.3

I have confirmed this has worked by running the following commands,

route
ip route get 8.8.8.8

The results are as follows,

However, when I initiate traffic from 192.168.232.6 to an external host, I do not see the traffic hitting the firewall. There is no firewall/network rules in between the firewall and the server.

I have checked my arp table and it is as you would expect,

When I run the following command and run a packet capture,

telnet 8.8.8.8 8089

I get the following results,

The packets are leaving the server and heading towards the firewalls MAC, but I do not see the packets arrive (I have run a packet capture on the firewall and nothing)

Why Would this be? What can I investigate further from the host ?