Comment 17 for bug 1586528

Same problem. Using Mint. No VM involved.
Switched from Windows to Linux just a few days ago.
This occurred two times in three days now.
Never did anything network related, so all my settings should be the default ones.

$ sudo lshw -class network
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: enp3s0
       version: 0c
       serial: e0:3f:49:e8:4f:66
       size: 1Gbit/s
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl8168g-2_0.0.1 02/06/13 ip=192.168.2.1 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=1Gbit/s
       resources: irq:27 ioport:d000(size=256) memory:f7100000-f7100fff memory:f2100000-f2103fff