No IP Address on eno1

Question

I'm sad to say that although there are a ton of questions about no IP addresses, I can't seem to find a resolution to my specific scenario. I'm hoping that with a few technical details, someone can point this windows guy where he is going wrong.

Problem: No IP address on new ethernet PCI-x card. Background: Home dev server running docker containers and samba. Was originally setup using the installation menu for wireless which was working fine until I tried to replace with TP-LINK TG-3468 Gigabit PIC Express card.

OS: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS

$ifconfig eno1
br-1...
br-8...
docker0...
lo...

Noticing that I do not see eno1 for the new NIC but do see some of the docker created interfaces

$ifconfig eno1
eno1   Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
       BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
       RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
       TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 everruns:0 carrier:0
       RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
       Interrupt:20 Memory:f7f00000-f7f20000

contents of /etc/network/interfaces:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eno1
iface eno1 inet dhcp

I believe there is a problem with my routing although I haven't been able to figure out how to set something that routes to my gateway

$route
Destination     Gateway     Genmask      Flags  Metric   Ref   Use   Iface
172.17.0.0      *           255.255.0.0  U      0        0       0   docker0
172.18.0.0      *           255.255.0.0  U      0        0       0   br-8...
172.19.0.0      *           255.255.0.0  U      0        0       0   br-1...

Tried to set a route to the router:

sudo route add default gw 192.168.1.254

results in SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable

I have also played with setting the interface file to a try and grab a static IP from my router, but that didn't improve anything either. I never get an IP and I am never able.

Edit 1: Results of ip route get 192.168.1.254

RTNETLINK answers: Network is unreachable

Edit 2: Tried to manually configure a static ip via:

sudo /sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.91 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255

Still can't ping router after this.

More info:

$sudo lshw -numeric -C network
*-network
  description Ethernet interface
  product: 82579V Gigabit Network Connection [8086:1503]
  vendor: Intel Corporation [8086]
  physical id: 19
  bus info: pci@0000:00:19.0
  logical name: eno1
  version: 04
  serial: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
  capacity: 1Gbit/s
  width: 32 bits
  clock: 33MHz
  capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
  configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=3.2.6-k firmware=0.13-4 ip=192.168.1.91 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
  resources: irq:33 memory:f7f00000-f7f1ffff memoroy:f7f39000-f7f39fff ioport:f080(size=32)

Edit 3:

$ip link show eno1
3: eno1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

With XX being my MAC address.

@EricF, brctl is not installed and bridge link show returns nothing. My understanding is that those interfaces are created by docker to allow traffic into the containers that I currently have shut down. If those containers are fired up, then the same bridge link show command does return a listing of interfaces that I did not list originally. My assessment of this is that eno1 is not using the bridges and that the docker interfaces are.

Solution

The problem (or one of the problems, considering ErikF's remark about bridging) is that your interface is not connected:

3: eno1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP>

The NO-CARRIER and the missing flag LOWER_UP (for "lower layer is up" meaning the link layer, Ethernet) tell us that the NIC cannot send or receive data, simply because it seems not connected to anything (physically). Maybe the cable is not plugged in on one side or the switch ist powered off...

routing configuration

You can configure only such IP addresses as gateway which are link-local i.e. one of your interfaces must have this IP in its network (IP address and network mask).

Usually this means that you can ping the gateway without any routing being configured.

You can also use the command

ip route get 192.168.1.254

to see how such packets would be handled. The rusult must be a 192.168.1.254 dev line, not a 192.168.1.254 via line.

Comments

[Hauke Laging]

Add the output of ip link show eno1 to the question.

[Daniel]

@HaukeLaging Results added

[Hauke Laging]

Not the one I asked for...

[ErikF]

It appears that you have bridge interfaces on your host. What interfaces are connected to each of those? brctl show or bridge link show would be helpful. If your Ethernet interface is attached to one of the bridges, then it won't have an IP address (the bridge interface will have it instead.)

[Daniel]

@HaukeLaging Late night and I got derailed by the Answer you posted instead of the comment. My apologies and I do appreciate the help

[Hauke Laging]

I have edited my answer. You should consider using ip a instead of ifconfig.

[Daniel]

Interesting, I did just install the cable this week, but I thought I had successfully tested it with a separate machine. I will reconfirm

[Daniel]

Trying your suggestion of "ip a" instead of "ifconfig" showed another network interface, enp2s0 which was actually my real NIC that I was trying to enable. Once I had the right logical name, the rest was easily configured and now I have a network connection running through the correct card