Excuse me I should have stated at the top that this issue appears after
purging NetworkManager.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1720892
Title:
17.10Beta2. networking.service not
Marking bug as invalid, as it is intentional that ifupdown is not
installable by default.
** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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ifupdown which provides netowrking.service is no longer installed by
default or used.
desktop systems default to networkmanager for network management, as
they have done since forever.
server and cloud systems in artful default to using src:nplan package,
netplan command line by default. Which