Connect to Internet on Boot

["S. P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net>]

I am running Debian v-8.4.0 and have encountered a problem with my 
internet connection.  I duid a fresh reinstall after the computer 
crashed due to fan failure about a month ago.  I automatically set up 
the internet connection during the installation and it worked until 
several days ago when I had need to reboot the system.

Now, however, the internet connection is not started on booting the 
system and it is necessart to run 'dhclient eth0' as root.

ifconfig returns:

root@AbNormal:/home/comp# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr bc:ee:7b:5e:83:36
          inet addr:192.168.1.116  Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: 2602:306:bcd2:41d0:beee:7bff:fe5e:8336/64 
Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: fe80::beee:7bff:fe5e:8336/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:5314 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1994 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2035132 (1.9 MiB)  TX bytes:242660 (236.9 KiB)

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:88 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:88 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:20113 (19.6 KiB)  TX bytes:20113 (19.6 KiB)

vmnet1    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:56:c0:00:01
          inet addr:172.16.96.1  Bcast:172.16.96.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:1/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

vmnet8    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:56:c0:00:08
          inet addr:172.16.221.1  Bcast:172.16.221.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:61 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

Further, /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/Wired Connection 1 is:


[connection]
id=Wired connection 1
uuid=53ac3b1f-4121-41d3-a303-45b1b75577e9
type=802-3-ethernet

[802-3-ethernet]

[ipv4]
method=auto

[ipv6]
method=auto
ip6-privacy=2

I am, however, loathe to edit the file as I don't know what I would be 
doing.

A solution to the problem would be much appreciated as my wife uses to 
compute for Ebay

Thanks in advance.

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