Proxy detection for IPv6 vs. Legacy IP



[22:21] <dcbw> atulhjp_: is there a plan to handle separate proxy
        information that may come from DHCPv4 and DHCPv6?

Oh, $DEITY no please don't do that. It's bad enough that we have that
for DNS — even in manual settings. And we thus have bizarre and not-
entirely-useful semantics for what the "IPv4 DNS" vs. "IPv6 DNS"
settings are for. And both RDNSS and DHCPv6 are "IPv6 DNS".

Proxy information can come from a lot of places. Including DHCPv[46],
WPAD, and other places. Just deal with it, have a priority order for
them (with manual configuration obviously overriding anything else and
maybe a way to disable WPAD but permit the rest), and keep it simple.

Please don't extend the DNS thing. It'd actually be nice to *fix* that
and move DNS settings into a NMDeviceSettings object, if we could.

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dwmw2

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