[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1025073: Bug persists in the latest release

[dianlujitao]

On Sat, 15 Jul 2023 18:20:07 +0800 dianlujitao <dianlujitao at gmail.com> 
wrote:
 > I encountered the same issue with two Debian 12 (package version:
 > 1.42.4-1) machines, one fresh installed and the other upgraded from
 > Debian 11.
 >
 > Both of them use PPPoE to connect to the Internet. After connected,
 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/ppp0/accept_ra is always reset to 0 and thus no

 > ipv6 address is assigned.

Found a workaround to this issue, that is to create 
/etc/ppp/ipv6-up.d/00-iface-config with the following contents:

#!/bin/sh

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/$1/accept_ra

 >
 > In addition, I tested on the latest Debian testing, with NM version
 > 1.42.8-1, and it also has the same issue. However, my Archlinux machine
 > with NM 1.42.6 works fine. Hence, I suspect that this is a downstream
 > Debian bug.
 >
Not exactly, Arch's ppp package ships 
/etc/ppp/ipv6-up.d/00-iface-config.sh to write that node.