Need option for special per-VPN proxy settings
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network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
If using a VPN, the rules of the local network are no longer the relevant ones -- in particular, after connecting to a work VPN I found that I need to tell all web traffic to use a proxy server otherwise I cannot access web pages external to the VPN's local network.
Accessing external pages like this is a large part of the *point* of a VPN, but it is a real pain to have to change my global proxy settings every time I join or leave the VPN connection.
I think the VPN configuration dialog needs (maybe under Advanced Options) a tab to override the main network proxy settings for each VPN, so this configuration can be applied/unapplied automatically. There may be other similar settings which could do with being settable in a per-VPN way, but proxies is the one that's currently biting me, and it doesn't seem to be achievable via the currently exposed IPv4 Settings dialog tab.