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Re: uTorrent, IPv6

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laird Popkin)
Tue Aug 19 08:00:29 2008

From: Laird Popkin <laird@pando.com>
To: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
In-Reply-To: <E7207097-D581-4DD8-B512-2C04C641E6C3@daork.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:58:45 -0400
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

My recollection is that there were complaints about them reconfiguring  
people's TCP stacks and uTorrent stopped enabling IPv6.

- Laird Popkin, CTO, Pando Networks
   http://www.pandonetworks.com
   520 Broadway, 10th Floor, NY, NY, 10012
   laird@pando.com, 646/465-0570.

Sent from my iPhone. Apologies in advance for typo's.

On Aug 19, 2008, at 2:34 AM, Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net> 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.
>
> --
> Nathan Ward
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