Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com> wrote:
Anyone from Activision/Blizzard who would like to chime in with more details? :)
I'm definitely not from either of those, but I've found this link: http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&tag=IPv6&rhtml=true --- What is IPv6? Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the technology behind the next-generation internet. IPv6 was designed to succeed the current version of IP (known as IPv4) and solve many of the current version's issues, such as the dwindling number of available IP addresses. 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. 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. --- "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? Bernhard