Comment 9 for bug 1776228

Also verified cosmic. Worked out of the box with netplan.io 0.96-0ubuntu0.18.10.1, systemd 239-7ubuntu10.10, and a netplan configuration:

network:
    version: 2
    ethernets:
        ens3:
            dhcp4: true
            match:
                macaddress: fa:16:3e:02:43:e7
            set-name: ens3
        ens4:
            dhcp4: true
            dhcp4-overrides:
                use-routes: false
                use-dns: false
            match:
                macaddress: fa:16:3e:62:33:09
            set-name: ens4

Also confirms that systemd release v237 is responsible for NIC status detection failure in LTS, and that an upgrade to v239 would fix it there.