[139992] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: World of Warcraft may begin using IPv6 on Tuesday
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Chown)
Wed Apr 27 07:11:24 2011
From: Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:11:02 +0100
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On 27 Apr 2011, at 00:21, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com> wrote:
> ...
> To get ahead of the issue, we've put an IPv6 option into the World of
> Warcraft interface with patch 4.1. So as IPv6 starts to become more
> widely available the game will already be prepared to handle the =
switch
> over. For most players, the IPv6 checkbox will remain grayed out until
> IPv6 becomes available in your area. Once available, enabling this
> feature will require WoW.exe to detect a valid IPv6 connection to the
> internet on the computer you are playing from.
>=20
> At some point in the future, WoW realm servers will be able to use =
IPv6
> in addition to the current IPv4. If IPv6 is enabled, the game will
> attempt to establish an IPv6 connection first. If unable to find an =
IPv6
> connection, or if the IPv6 option is disabled/grayed out, the game =
will
> make an IPv4 connection instead. This should not cause any connection =
or
> performance issues.
> ---
>=20
> "At some point in the future" does not sound like we will see much =
IPv6
> traffic immediately, but who knows. Is anyone seeing some traffic that
> might point to IPv6 adoption on the servers?
I arranged a test this morning. With a laptop running 4.1 on a =
dual-stack network the IPv6 option is greyed out under Network Options.
I'm assuming your suggestion that the Blizzard servers are not yet =
enabled is probably correct, but that the clients now have capability.
Would be interesting to know what they consider a 'valid IPv6 =
connection'.
Tim=
