alm10965@alm10965-HP-dx5150-MT-PE679AV:~$ uname -a 
Linux alm10965-HP-dx5150-MT-PE679AV 3.11.0-12-generic #19-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 9 16:12:00 UTC 2013 i686 athlon i686 GNU/Linux

~$ lspci -nnk | grep -i net -A2   
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1677] (rev 20)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:3009]
	Kernel driver in use: tg3

~$ nmcli -m multiline con
NAME:                                   Kabelnetzwerkverbindung 1
UUID:                                   e3fa5966-f1a9-4ef6-9f31-5083ad23d0b4
TYP:                                    802-3-ethernet
ZEITSTEMPEL-ECHT:                       Di 22 Okt 2013 01:41:51 CEST

~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
#     DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
nameserver 127.0.1.1

~$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1	localhost
127.0.1.1	alm10965-HP-dx5150-MT-PE679AV

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

~$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules | egrep -i 'device|sub' -A3
# PCI device 0x14e4:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0/0000:02:00.0 (tg3)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:16:17:22:49:bf", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0

ping -c 2 $(route -n | grep UG | awk {'print $2'})