After coming back from the weekend, the issue is now also occurring on the 4.15.0-20 kernel. I am not sure what is up. I had tried the 4.15.0-22 and 4.15.0-36 kernels, prior to booting up 4.15.0-20 again. In this particular machine, I had tried resetting the power saving settings of the network card from a Windows install, per bug that could be related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1785171 To make this issue ever more confusing, we have another DELL 7060 running 4.15.0-36 where the network card is working perfectly and the issue has not come up at all. From my latest test on 4.15.0-20 and some discussion with TJ- in IRC, he asked me for some output to look at sysfs output from the card. Here it is: root@ae-abcd-400000:~# uname -a Linux ae-abcd-400000 4.15.0-20-generic #21~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 25 02:42:04 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux root@ae-abcd-400000:~# ping 192.168.1.1 PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.226 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.215 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.170 ms ^C --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2045ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.170/0.203/0.226/0.029 ms root@ae-abcd-400000:~# apt udpate E: Invalid operation udpate root@ae-abcd-400000:~# apt update Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [109 kB] Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [107 kB] Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [107 kB] Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages [868 kB] Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 Packages [776 kB] Get:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main Translation-en [353 kB] Get:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages [696 kB] Get:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe i386 Packages [638 kB] Get:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe Translation-en [282 kB] Get:11 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 Packages [573 kB] Get:12 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main i386 Packages [493 kB] 91% [12 Packages 92.5 kB/493 kB 19%]^C root@ae-abcd-400000:~# ping 192.168.1.1 PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1068 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1001 ms ^C --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 2 received, 33% packet loss, time 2032ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1001.626/1034.993/1068.361/33.383 ms, pipe 2 /sys/class/net/eno1/statistics/collisions=0 /sys/class/net/eno1/statistics/multicast=2 /sys/class/net/eno1/statistics/rx_bytes=4904919 /sys/class/net/eno1/statistics/rx_compressed=0 /sys/class/net/eno1/statistics/rx_crc_errors=12 /sys/class/net/eno1/statistics/rx_dropped=0 /sys/class/net/eno1/statistics/rx_errors=24 /sys/class/net/eno1/statistics/rx_fifo_errors=0 /sys/class/net/eno1/statistics/rx_frame_errors=0 /sys/class/net/eno1/statistics/rx_length_errors=0 /sys/class/net/eno1/statistics/rx_missed_errors=0 /sys/class/net/eno1/statistics/rx_nohandler=0 /sys/class/net/eno1/statistics/rx_over_errors=0 /sys/class/net/eno1/statistics/rx_packets=3306 /sys/class/net/eno1/statistics/tx_aborted_errors=0 /sys/class/net/eno1/statistics/tx_bytes=74577 /sys/class/net/eno1/statistics/tx_carrier_errors=0 /sys/class/net/eno1/statistics/tx_compressed=0 /sys/class/net/eno1/statistics/tx_dropped=0 /sys/class/net/eno1/statistics/tx_errors=0 /sys/class/net/eno1/statistics/tx_fifo_errors=0 /sys/class/net/eno1/statistics/tx_heartbeat_errors=0 /sys/class/net/eno1/statistics/tx_packets=924 /sys/class/net/eno1/statistics/tx_window_errors=0