I (from laptop on wireless connection) have been trying to connect my edge router (within the CML Lab environment) to the Internet using an external connector "cloud" node. I understand that you can bridge your physical network to the topology network using the external connector in bridge mode. No matter how I connect the node to my router, I can't get a IP address using "ip address dhcp" on the interface connected to the external connector. I tried connecting my topology edge router via a unmanaged switch to the EC and I tried connecting p2p (router > external connector). No luck.
If I put the external connector in NAT mode, it works but not the way I expected it to. In NAT mode on the external connector, I can get a DHCP address but when I ping the internet (using the interface with the DHCP address as a source) I get nothing. How is this possible? I have been hearing that the Dev Net Sandbox does not allow you to do this from the free version. Is this true? I have included a picture of my topology. I want to get a DHCP address via bridge mode, make sure I can ping internet, then use that allocated IP as a default route in my CML Lab Topology.
