Connection issues

[jimevt]

This isn't a VM or anything like that.  It is my old desktop running Ubuntu.

I think you meant "ifconfig" not "ipconfig":


: (636)> sudo ifconfig -a
enp2s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.1.254  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.1.255
        inet6 fe80::ba97:5aff:fe04:cc98  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether b8:97:5a:04:cc:98  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 67845500  bytes 82132097767 (82.1 GB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 591020  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 67070932  bytes 59481998784 (59.4 GB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
        loop  txqueuelen 1000  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 94433730  bytes 70632115598 (70.6 GB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 94433730  bytes 70632115598 (70.6 GB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0