As a side note, my motherboard's NIC ( enp30s0) is useless it crashes after a few seconds when VNC is active so I'd set random IP details so it doesn't interfere as I don't know how to permanently disable it (it shows as unmanaged in the control panel).

Code: admin@VMPC:~$ journalctl -xe -- Unit ssh.service has begun reloading its configuration Jul 26 18:11:02 VMPC sshd[1629]: Received SIGHUP; restarting. Jul 26 18:11:02 VMPC systemd[1]: Reloaded OpenBSD Secure Shell server. -- Subject: Unit ssh.service has finished reloading its configuration -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit ssh.service has finished reloading its configuration -- -- The result is done. Jul 26 18:11:02 VMPC sshd[1629]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22. Jul 26 18:11:02 VMPC sshd[1629]: Server listening on :: port 22. Jul 26 18:11:02 VMPC systemd[1]: networking.service: Main process exited, code=e Jul 26 18:11:02 VMPC systemd[1]: Failed to start Raise network interfaces. -- Subject: Unit networking.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit networking.service has failed. -- -- The result is failed. Jul 26 18:11:02 VMPC systemd[1]: networking.service: Unit entered failed state. Jul 26 18:11:02 VMPC systemd[1]: networking.service: Failed with result 'exit-co lines 2433-2455/2455 (END) -- Unit ssh.service has begun reloading its configuration Jul 26 18:11:02 VMPC sshd[1629]: Received SIGHUP; restarting. Jul 26 18:11:02 VMPC systemd[1]: Reloaded OpenBSD Secure Shell server. -- Subject: Unit ssh.service has finished reloading its configuration -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit ssh.service has finished reloading its configuration -- -- The result is done. Jul 26 18:11:02 VMPC sshd[1629]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22. Jul 26 18:11:02 VMPC sshd[1629]: Server listening on :: port 22. Jul 26 18:11:02 VMPC systemd[1]: networking.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Jul 26 18:11:02 VMPC systemd[1]: Failed to start Raise network interfaces. -- Subject: Unit networking.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit networking.service has failed. -- -- The result is failed. Jul 26 18:11:02 VMPC systemd[1]: networking.service: Unit entered failed state. Jul 26 18:11:02 VMPC systemd[1]: networking.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Code: admin@VMPC:~$ systemctl status networking.service ● networking.service - Raise network interfaces Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/networking.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Drop-In: /run/systemd/generator/networking.service.d └─50-insserv.conf-$network.conf Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2017-07-26 18:11:02 BST; 2min 55s ago Docs: man:interfaces(5) Process: 4132 ExecStop=/sbin/ifdown -a --read-environment --exclude=lo (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 6870 ExecStart=/sbin/ifup -a --read-environment (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Process: 6864 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c [ "$CONFIGURE_INTERFACES" != "no" ] && [ -n "$(ifquery --read-environment --list --exclude=lo)" ] && udevadm settle (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 6870 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Jul 26 18:10:00 VMPC sh[6864]: Unknown interface enp34s0 Jul 26 18:10:00 VMPC sh[6864]: Unknown interface enp36s0 Jul 26 18:10:00 VMPC ifup[6870]: Unknown interface enp34s0 Jul 26 18:10:00 VMPC ifup[6870]: Unknown interface enp36s0 Jul 26 18:10:00 VMPC ifup[6870]: Waiting for a slave to join bond0 (will timeout after 60s) Jul 26 18:11:01 VMPC ifup[6870]: No slave joined bond0, continuing anyway Jul 26 18:11:02 VMPC systemd[1]: networking.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Jul 26 18:11:02 VMPC systemd[1]: Failed to start Raise network interfaces. Jul 26 18:11:02 VMPC systemd[1]: networking.service: Unit entered failed state. Jul 26 18:11:02 VMPC systemd[1]: networking.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Code: /etc/network/interfaces This file describes the network interfaces available on your system# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). source /etc/network/interfaces.d/* # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto enp30s0 iface enp30s0 inet static address 172.16.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 172.16.0.0 #enp34s0 configuration auto enp34s0 iface eth1 inet manual bond-master bond0 bond-primary enp34s0 #enp36s0 configuration auto enp36s0 iface eth2 inet manual bond-master bond0 # Bonding enp34s0 & enp36s0 to create bond0 NIC auto bond0 iface bond0 inet static address 192.168.14.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 bond-mode balance-alb bond-miimon 100 bond-slaves none

Code: ifconfig -a bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr ca:f4:3e:98:f3:6c inet addr:192.168.14.10 Bcast:192.168.14.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST MASTER MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) enp30s0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 4c:cc:6a:fb:09:55 inet addr:172.16.0.2 Bcast:172.16.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) enp34s0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:e0:4c:68:12:30 inet addr:192.168.14.2 Bcast:192.168.14.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::5e95:83bb:bd91:9be9/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:42 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:98 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:14017 (14.0 KB) TX bytes:14358 (14.3 KB) enp35s0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:e0:4c:68:12:31 inet addr:192.168.0.204 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::6f6:99fc:cb14:9cdf/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:18139 errors:0 dropped:1224 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:9281 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:9936585 (9.9 MB) TX bytes:1053632 (1.0 MB) enp36s0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:e0:4c:68:12:32 inet addr:192.168.14.3 Bcast:192.168.14.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::c771:25b:9923:26a2/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:135 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:166 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:24406 (24.4 KB) TX bytes:23893 (23.8 KB) enp37s0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:e0:4c:68:12:33 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1 RX packets:55290 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:55290 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1 RX bytes:26230968 (26.2 MB) TX bytes:26230968 (26.2 MB) virbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) virbr0-nic Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 52:54:00:a1:14:54 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)