This just happened to me. Netspeed thinks eth1 is down. ifconfig shows it is up, has an IP address, there's a default route going out through eth1, and my Internet works just fine.
I do not recall this ever happening before. I do use network-manager. -- Netspeed says my interface is down, even though it's up https://launchpad.net/bugs/71982 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs