<html><head></head><body>So the kernel changed and now uses the bus designations for nics.<br>
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Cat your config for eth0 into the enp63s0 config file. Keep the MAC and copy the IP stuff. Comment out the rest of the duplicate stuff. Make sure it's set to run at boot. Restart networking.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On November 6, 2016 6:38:55 PM EST, "Stephen R. Blevins" <stephen.r.blevins@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Running Mint 18.1.<br /><br />At system start up, the system NIC is supposed to get its IP address via<br />DHCP from the router. Doesn't.<br /><br />ifconfig shows *no* eth0, just enp63s0 for the already-known MAC address.<br /><br />System was working fine yesterday, but when we attempted to boot up<br />today, it has been going bonkers.<br /><br />Ideas for me to try?<br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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