ok, venting time.

VMware workstation has 3 network types and of them only NAT supports ipv6.

VMware 17 can only have one NAT network at a time.

the one ipv6 address that doesn’t randomly drop is the link local address.

but certain traffic like http doesn’t transmit over that network.

but I might have found a janky workaround.

if I change the subnet range in the virtual network editor it refreshes all of the IPs through DHCP.

#endif //RANT