Re: uTorrent, IPv6

[Nathan Ward <nanog () daork net>]

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