[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#756534: Info received (network-manager: IPv6 hop limit set to 0)

[Ralf Jung]

Hi,

> Actually, doing a little further poking around...
> 
> It looks like network-manager will set the hop limit based on what is 
> given by the router in the v6 router advertisement.
> 
> In my case, the local gateway will specify the hop-limit as 0 in its 
> advertisement, and network-manager will take it as gospel.
> 
> I reckon if the value received in a router advertisement is 0, it should 
> default to something like 64.

That was also the issue here: After configuring the router, IPv6 now works.
Interesting enough though, on a Fedora machine, a hop limit of 0 is not
a problem. Also, rdisc6 shows the 0 as "undefined", so it seems this is
a special value.

Kind regards
Ralf