I caveat this comment with an apology for not having any logs to share,
but anecdotally, I was having this problem on a Thinkpad T460s, which
has an i219-LM nic, running Ubuntu desktop 20.04 LTS.  Wired network
would disconnect on average every 20 minutes, sporadically, without
warning.  Made Zoom conferences very annoying, as I would drop out
without warning, then have to re-login, reconnect to the conference
room, and then pick up where we left off.  Internet searches or clicking
links would randomly turn up a "not connected" error page.  There was no
particular pattern I could ascertain as to when/why it would happen, it
just did.

Then I upgraded to a Dell Precision 7730 laptop, which unfortunately has
the same i219-LM nic.  I installed my NVMe ssd from the Thinkpad T460s,
so unsurprisingly, I had the same wireless network dropping issues.
Unrelated, I installed .list files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d for 20.10
and 20.10-proposed so I could install more current qemu-kvm packages,
and came across the linux-image-5.6-1021-oem package.  The e1000e.ko
contained within is is 3.2.6-k, which is a little outdated, but it
doesn't drop connection so that doesn't particularly matter - it's
infinitely less obnoxious to run.

The list file for the repo is: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
groovy-proposed restricted main multiverse universe and I run it pinned
as priority 300 to avoid it installing anything that might break my
system:

$ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/proposed-updates 
# Configure apt to allow selective installs of packages from proposed
Package: *
Pin: release a=groovy-proposed
Pin-Priority: 300

I also have a feeling the e1000e-dkms package would be a good fix, which
might be attractive to someone wanting a newer version of the ko, but,
as I have no interest in making my kernel installations take longer than
they already do, I have not tried it.

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  Intel I219-V Ethernet Interface on Ubuntu Linux Using e1000e Driver
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