ian072@sundown:~$ dmesg | grep p5p1 [ 0.677118] systemd-udevd[104]: renamed network interface eth1 to p5p1 [ 6.520641] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): p5p1: link is not ready [ 7.438853] r8169 0000:03:00.0 p5p1: link down [ 7.439106] r8169 0000:03:00.0 p5p1: link down [ 7.439162] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): p5p1: link is not ready [ 9.379862] r8169 0000:03:00.0 p5p1: link up [ 9.379869] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): p5p1: link becomes ready ian072@sundown:~$ ps aux | grep -i network ian072 3030 0.0 0.0 11740 948 pts/0 S+ 15:11 0:00 grep --color=auto -i network ian072@sundown:~$ sudo ifconfig p5p1 up [sudo] password for ian072: ian072@sundown:~$ sudo dhclient p5p1 (it has been stuck here now for 2 minutes)