[139995] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: World of Warcraft may begin using IPv6 on Tuesday
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Apr 27 08:56:20 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <EMEW3|368ebd9f173a9d7df691b2c565edf714n3QCB803tjc|ecs.soton.ac.uk|6A1FC60F-6A09-4F5F-B056-342FF312F854@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 05:53:35 -0700
To: Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 27, 2011, at 4:11 AM, Tim Chown wrote:
>=20
> On 27 Apr 2011, at 00:21, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
>=20
>> 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?
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> I'm assuming your suggestion that the Blizzard servers are not yet =
enabled is probably correct, but that the clients now have capability.
>=20
> Would be interesting to know what they consider a 'valid IPv6 =
connection'.
>=20
> Tim
Well, with full native IPv6 on ethernet using ARIN direct assigned =
addresses, it's still
grayed out. I'm going to send in a support request and ask why it =
doesn't work.
Owen
