Need help with EVE-NG Connectivity

I've heard from multiple people that EVE-NG is like the best network emulation application of all and I tried to install it but I am stuck with the network connectivity and I was wondering if someone can help me out.

Network Topology (up-to-down)

So here is how it is implemented at the moment:

• Internet
• Laptop (no firewall) - VMWare Workstation VMNET8 192.168.56.0/24
• (NAT)Uses 192.168.56.1/24 as adapter IPVirtual environment
• DG = 192.168.56.2/24
• EVE-NG = 192.168.56.227/24

Internet > Laptop > Vmware 192.168.56.1/24> DG .2 > EVE-NG 192.168.56.227

Config EVE-NG

• address 192.168.56.227
• netmask 255.255.255.0
• gateway 192.168.56.2
• dns-domain example.com
• dns-nameservers 192.168.56.2 8.8.8.8
• bridge_ports eth0bridge_stp off

VM Network AdapterNAT + Connected + Connected at power on

Troubleshooting

• EVE-NG side: Can ping 192.168.56.2, but not 1
• Laptop side: Can ping 192.168.56.1, but not 2
• Laptop Firewall is off
• VMWare Version 15.5
• Eve-NG is most recent version + I did a sudo apt-get update

It seems there is a routing issue between my laptop network and the vm network environment. Any idea to solve this?