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Thanks wila =

Understood. 

The purchase of Workstation Pro is supposed to come with 30 days of support, but I've discovered that there is no mechanism to invoke this support.  Filling out a support request gets stopped because I don't have any "entitlement" - which I would have assumed I would have 30 days of.  There doesn't seem to be any other way to just submit a bug - even if you  aren't expecting a response.  It would just be nice to know that a bug report ended up on a support queue - even if the priority was low.

Anyway - just in case someone at VMWare stumbles across this thread. - the changes in vmware.log when I disconnect and then reconnect the network are:

2022-02-06T02:40:56.266Z In(05) vmx TOOLS received request in VMX to set option 'synctime' -> '1'
2022-02-06T02:40:56.267Z No(00) vmx ConfigDB: Setting tools.syncTime = "TRUE"
2022-02-06T02:40:56.275Z In(05) vmx VMXVmdb_SetCfgState: cfgReqPath=/vm/#_VMX/vmx/cfgState/req/#1ab/, remDevPath=/vm/#_VMX/vmx/vigor/setCfgStateReq/#261/in/
2022-02-06T02:40:56.302Z In(05) vmx TOOLS received request in VMX to set option 'synctime' -> '1'
2022-02-06T02:40:56.302Z No(00) vmx ConfigDB: Setting tools.syncTime = "TRUE"
2022-02-06T02:40:56.320Z No(00) vmx ConfigDB: Setting tools.upgrade.policy = "upgradeAtPowerCycle"
2022-02-06T02:40:56.441Z No(00) vmx ConfigDB: Setting ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"
2022-02-06T02:40:56.449Z No(00) vmx ConfigDB: Setting ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
2022-02-06T02:40:56.449Z No(00) vmx ConfigDB: Setting ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0C:29:73:A6:67"
2022-02-06T02:40:56.491Z No(00) vmx ConfigDB: Setting ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000e"
2022-02-06T02:41:02.933Z In(05) vmx TOOLS received request in VMX to set option 'synctime' -> '1'
2022-02-06T02:41:02.933Z No(00) vmx ConfigDB: Setting tools.syncTime = "TRUE"
2022-02-06T02:41:02.942Z In(05) vmx VMXVmdb_SetCfgState: cfgReqPath=/vm/#_VMX/vmx/cfgState/req/#1ac/, remDevPath=/vm/#_VMX/vmx/vigor/setCfgStateReq/#271/in/
2022-02-06T02:41:02.975Z In(05) vmx TOOLS received request in VMX to set option 'synctime' -> '1'
2022-02-06T02:41:02.976Z No(00) vmx ConfigDB: Setting tools.syncTime = "TRUE"
2022-02-06T02:41:02.988Z No(00) vmx ConfigDB: Setting tools.upgrade.policy = "upgradeAtPowerCycle"
2022-02-06T02:41:03.007Z No(00) vmx ConfigDB: Setting ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"
2022-02-06T02:41:03.015Z No(00) vmx ConfigDB: Setting ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
2022-02-06T02:41:03.015Z No(00) vmx ConfigDB: Setting ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0C:29:73:A6:67"
2022-02-06T02:41:03.057Z No(00) vmx ConfigDB: Setting ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000e"
2022-02-06T02:41:03.136Z In(05) vmx VNET: 'ethernet0' enable link state propagation, lsp.state = 5
2022-02-06T02:41:03.136Z In(05) vmx VNET: MACVNetConnectToNetwork 'ethernet0' lsp.state = 4
2022-02-06T02:41:03.136Z In(05) vmx VNET: MACVNetConnectToNetwork 'Ethernet0' notify available.
2022-02-06T02:41:03.137Z In(05) vmx VNET: MACVNetLinkStateEventHandler: event, up:1, adapter:1
2022-02-06T02:41:03.137Z In(05) vmx VNET: MACVNetLinkStateEventHandler: 'ethernet0' state from 4 to 6.
2022-02-06T02:41:03.244Z In(05) vmx VNET: MACVNetLinkStateTimerHandler: 'ethernet0' state from 6 to 1.
2022-02-06T02:41:08.596Z In(05) vmx VNET: MACVNetLinkStateTimerHandler: 'ethernet0' state from 1 to 5.

I've done my bit to try and give feedback to improve the product. VMWare can do with it as they see fit.

thanks for the responses
-dave