Ethernet connection stopped working

EDIT: For no apparent reason, I now have ethernet connectivity. I had to restart to computer for an update (I’d restarted it before with no success). A new wired connection seems to have been created. Can anyone enlighten me as to what has happened?

Original post:

I can no longer connect to ethernet

I’ve been connected to the internet via ethernet on my 2011 MacBook Pro. However, over the last few days, I can’t get it to connect, even though my wi-fi connection is fine. I did recently install Cloudflare 1.1.1.1, but I was able to connect via ethernet even after that. My Network manager (Manjaro xfce) only shows the veth8262db8 device to connect, not the wlp3s0b1 ethernet connection. Below is the output of the ip a command. Can anyone help me diagnose what’s going on? Thanks. I’ve looked at similar issues on this forum, but they’re not exactly the problem I’m experiencing.

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER\_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000

link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00

inet [127.0.0.1/8](https://127.0.0.1/8) scope host lo

valid\_lft forever preferred\_lft forever

inet6 fd01:db8:1111::3/128 scope global 

valid\_lft forever preferred\_lft forever

inet6 fd01:db8:1111::2/128 scope global 

valid\_lft forever preferred\_lft forever

inet6 ::1/128 scope host 

valid\_lft forever preferred\_lft forever

2: wlp3s0b1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER\_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000

link/ether 68:a8:6d:40:2b:86 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

inet [192.168.1.156/24](https://192.168.1.156/24) brd [192.168.1.255](https://192.168.1.255) scope global dynamic noprefixroute wlp3s0b1

valid\_lft 56082sec preferred\_lft 56082sec

inet6 2600:1700:c391:f000::10/128 scope global dynamic noprefixroute 

valid\_lft 2370sec preferred\_lft 2370sec

inet6 2600:1700:c391:f000:b439:10ed:ca6a:3f7f/64 scope global dynamic noprefixroute 

valid\_lft 3349sec preferred\_lft 3349sec

inet6 fe80::b601:44a:d9a8:c96a/64 scope link noprefixroute 

valid\_lft forever preferred\_lft forever

3: br-16beaf2622f3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default 

link/ether 02:42:d0:38:16:12 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

4: docker0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER\_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default 

link/ether 02:42:4e:c1:2f:c5 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

inet [172.17.0.1/16](https://172.17.0.1/16) brd [172.17.255.255](https://172.17.255.255) scope global docker0

valid\_lft forever preferred\_lft forever

inet6 fe80::42:4eff:fec1:2fc5/64 scope link 

valid\_lft forever preferred\_lft forever

5: br-b1aecb591121: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default 

link/ether 02:42:9c:b4:7c:50 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

inet [172.18.0.1/16](https://172.18.0.1/16) brd [172.18.255.255](https://172.18.255.255) scope global br-b1aecb591121

valid\_lft forever preferred\_lft forever

7: veth8262db8@if6: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER\_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue master docker0 state UP group default 

link/ether 5a:a9:e3:50:c1:32 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff link-netnsid 0

inet6 fe80::58a9:e3ff:fe50:c132/64 scope link 

valid\_lft forever preferred\_lft forever

8: CloudflareWARP: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER\_UP> mtu 1280 qdisc mq state UNKNOWN group default qlen 500

link/none 

inet [172.16.0.2/32](https://172.16.0.2/32) scope global CloudflareWARP

valid\_lft forever preferred\_lft forever

inet6 2606:4700:110:829b:b8e8:ee66:223a:a116/128 scope global 

valid\_lft forever preferred\_lft forever

inet6 fe80::bcd8:76a0:6bd1:b8f3/64 scope link stable-privacy 

valid\_lft forever preferred\_lft forever

9: eth10: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000

link/ether 56:24:e7:18:8f:75 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff