[106981] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: uTorrent, IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Ward)
Tue Aug 19 02:42:17 2008
From: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
To: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <E7207097-D581-4DD8-B512-2C04C641E6C3@daork.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:42:12 +1200
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On 19/08/2008, at 6:34 PM, Nathan Ward wrote:
> On 19/08/2008, at 6:28 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Nathan Ward wrote:
>>
>>> uTorrent actively enables IPv6 on XP SP2 and Vista machines in the
>>> install process (by default, it can be turned off). IPv6 is turned
>>> on, on lots of PCs.
>>
>> We looked into this, and IPv6 is not mentioned in the install
>> process, and it's not selected by default as far as we can see.
>> There is a button in Preferences->general that says "install IPv6/
>> Teredo", so yes, it supports it but it's not on by default, at
>> least not here.
>
> Oh? I looked in to this in a beta, and it was on by default.
> I'll have another look.
Yep, you're right, as I say, that's changed from a previous beta I
think.
Anyway, it'll still use Teredo/6to4/native IPv6 if it's already
enabled - Vista has these enabled by default.
My guess would be that a large percentage of uTorrent users are Vista
users.
--
Nathan Ward
