Flapping Ethernet connection of Fedora 23

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Since a few days I am experiencing a flapping Ethernet connection on my Fedora 23 laptop: the network connection goes down for several seconds every minute.

The problem persists in different environments (different cables and switches) and regardless of static or DHCP addressing; the connection with an USB-Eth adapter worked for one hour or so, then started behaving the same way.

The machine is up-to-date with the latest kernel (4.4.6) and packages. Booting on an older kernel (4.4.3) did not solve the problem. However, when booting on a Live CD with Fedora 21, the wired network seems to work.

Anyone has experienced this issue? Here's some troubleshooting output (concerning the eth device enp0s25):

[root@linuxbox ~]# ip address
(...)
2: enp0s25: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether ec:b1:d7:97:9d:f2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 10.10.10.13/24 brd 10.10.10.255 scope global enp0s25
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::eeb1:d7ff:fe97:9df2/64 scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
(...)

[root@linuxbox ~]# dmesg 
(...) 
[ 1403.944457] ax88179_178a 4-5:1.0 enp0s20u5: ax88179 - Link status is: 0
[ 1409.490222] e1000e: enp0s25 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None
[ 1409.490232] e1000e 0000:00:19.0 enp0s25: 10/100 speed: disabling TSO

[root@linuxbox ~]# ping www.google.com
PING www.google.com (172.217.16.132) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from zrh04s06-in-f4.1e100.net (172.217.16.132): icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=4.79 ms
64 bytes from zrh04s06-in-f4.1e100.net (172.217.16.132): icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=4.48 ms
64 bytes from zrh04s06-in-f4.1e100.net (172.217.16.132): icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=4.57 ms
64 bytes from zrh04s06-in-f4.1e100.net (172.217.16.132): icmp_seq=50 ttl=54 time=4.62 ms
64 bytes from zrh04s06-in-f4.1e100.net (172.217.16.132): icmp_seq=51 ttl=54 time=4.50 ms
64 bytes from zrh04s06-in-f4.1e100.net (172.217.16.132): icmp_seq=52 ttl=54 time=4.81 ms
64 bytes from zrh04s06-in-f4.1e100.net (172.217.16.132): icmp_seq=53 ttl=54 time=6.16 ms
(...)
^C
--- www.google.com ping statistics ---
65 packets transmitted, 11 received, 83% packet loss, time 64018ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 4.486/4.803/6.164/0.469 ms

[root@linuxbox ~]# ethtool enp0s25
Settings for enp0s25:
    Supported ports: [ TP ]
    Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 
                            100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 
                            1000baseT/Full 
    Supported pause frame use: No
    Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
    Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 
                            100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 
                            1000baseT/Full 
    Advertised pause frame use: No
    Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
    Speed: 100Mb/s
    Duplex: Full
    Port: Twisted Pair
    PHYAD: 1
    Transceiver: internal
    Auto-negotiation: on
    MDI-X: off (auto)
    Supports Wake-on: pumbg
    Wake-on: g
    Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
                   drv probe link
    Link detected: yes

[root@linuxbox ~]# ethtool -S enp0s25
NIC statistics:
     rx_packets: 10222
     tx_packets: 1774
     rx_bytes: 1146761 ...