NetworkManager and STP

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

I just tried to use NM and a Cisco 2950 switch without portfast
enabled, this resulted in NetworkManager assigning me a 169.x address.

When I tried this on a 3550 it went from Blocking to Forwarding a lot
quicker so NM worked fine and anyone who sets up a switch for user
access is probably going to enable portfast so this may not be a big
deal and might only affect a small number of users who probably work
in a Datacenter and know to just click on NM and have it reconnect to
the wired.

I don't know of any way for NM to detect that a switch is going
through all the STP checks so maybe the ethernet timeout could be
increased a little?  In this case my switch went from blocking to
forwarding about 3 seconds after NM gave up and assigned me a 169
address so it should not need to be much longer...

On another subject, does NM have a bug database that I should submit
this to?  I could not find anything so I wasn't sure.