How to connect PNETLab node to external network?

[Geunyoung Park]

I have a PNETLab on a ESXi Server, and I started a SD-WAN test on my PNETLab.

And I found I can't connect my vManage node to external network. As you know connection to external network is needed to to access vManage GUI environment, but there are only two types of network cloud on my PNETLab; bridge and NAT cloud. Both are not the network cloud for external connection.

When I tested it on EVE-NG there was the cloud network for external connection. And on the Internet posts I found there are many types of cloud network in PNETLab deployed on VMware Workstation. But there were only two useless network clouds in my PNETLab on ESXi.

In short, I'm curious about the way to connect my node on PNETLab to the external network. Is there anyone who knows on it?

[bobmead61]

To help EV1 out and myself in the future on my LAB studies. I just had this issue on my pnet lab as well with a trunk going to my esxi server. As suggested by another community member I just disabled spanning tree on the vlan and it all works.

3560-SW(config)#no spanning-tree vlan 68

Ethernet0/0 VLAN68.

*Jul 13 21:22:19.811: %SPANTREE-7-BLOCK_PORT_TYPE: Blocking Ethernet0/0 on VLAN0068. In

consistent port type.

SW#

*Jul 13 21:25:57.601: %SPANTREE-2-UNBLOCK_CONSIST_PORT: Unblocking Ethernet0/0 on VLAN0

068. Port consistency restored.

SW#show ip int br

Interface              IP-Address      OK? Method Status                Protocol

Ethernet0/0            unassigned      YES unset  up                    up      

Ethernet0/1            unassigned      YES unset  up                    up      

Ethernet0/2            unassigned      YES unset  up                    up      

Ethernet0/3            unassigned      YES unset  up                    up      

Vlan68                 192.168.68.253  YES NVRAM  up                    up      

SW#ping 192.168.68.254

Type escape sequence to abort.

Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 192.168.68.254, timeout is 2 seconds:

.!!!!

Success rate is 80 percent (4/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 2/2/2 ms

SW#ping 192.168.68.254

Type escape sequence to abort.

Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 192.168.68.254, timeout is 2 seconds:

!!!!!

Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 2/2/2 ms

SW#