How to install IPv6 in Xenialpup? (For ProtonVPN) SOLVED

[Subito Piano]

Hi! I'm trying to set up ProtonVPN and apparently need IPv6 on my xenialpup -- 32 bit. I found this page on how to use Miredo to achieve IPv6 connectivity, but it's rather old (2012/2013), and it means installing devx, @ 172 MB. Now that we are in 2019 and several Puppy versions later, is there a better way to install or enable IPv6?

Thanks...

[OscarTalks]

I think the answer is to ignore any warning messages from Proton VPN about ipv6 and to continue using ipv4 rather than trying to enable ipv6

I have a Proton VPN (free) account myself and use it sometimes via their command-line tool which is a script. There is a warning which appears in terminal when I disconnect from VPN saying:-

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[!] This is an error in enabling IPv6 on the machine. Please enable it manually.

This is generated from the script and it sounds worse than it really is. I think it should be a notification that ipv6 is disabled, rather than describing it as an error.
Everything works fine using only ipv4 as far as I can see, that includes DNS handling on connection and disconnection.

[Subito Piano]

Thanks! I'll hopefully get to it tonight or tomorrow evening, otherwise it will have to wait 'til the weekend. I'll post back my success/failure after then.

[Subito Piano]

OK -- I didn't get back the next evening. School was entering the last six weeks, standardized testing week, finals...yeah. sorry!
So -- problem solved! I needed to enable IPV6.

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# modprobe ipv6
# modprobe tun 

So, thanks, Oscar and those who PM'd me.

[s243a]

OK -- I didn't get back the next evening. School was entering the last six weeks, standardized testing week, finals...yeah. sorry!
So -- problem solved! I needed to enable IPV6.

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# modprobe ipv6
# modprobe tun 

So, thanks, Oscar and those who PM'd me.

This might not give you any benifit:

ProtonVPN applications block all IPv6 traffic by default. To be precise, IPv6 traffic gets rerouted to the VPN server and never leaves it, only IPv4 traffic does in order to ensure that your real IP address is not leaked. Also, by disabling IPv6 traffic on your network, your internet connection performance shouldn’t be affected as most internet services are accessible via IPv4.

https://protonvpn.com/support/prevent-ipv6-vpn-leaks/

[Subito Piano]

Grrrrr......!!
Thanks -- good to know. I couldn't disable ipv6 on my router but i did on Puppy following their instructions for Ubuntu. (I use XenialPup, so the file they mention was in the same locale, IDK about Slacko & other Puppish variants.)[/img]
Now i'll see how much it affects my day-to-day usage....