rebooting a remote FC3 system

[Thomas Cameron]

>>when i remotely reboot a FC3 system from a ssh term/window, the remote FC3
>>system seems to have issues reconnecting to the network. i can go to the
>>remote/FC3 system, login, and try to ping the world, and i get "Network is
>>Unreachable". I can physically, hit the reboot switch, and the FC3 system
>>comes up with no problems, and i can ping at will.
>>
>>this presents a problem as i have no way of remotely shutting the FC3 
>>system
>>down/up right now. searching google doesn't give any good pointers as to 
>>how
>>this issue can be resolved.
>>
>>
> Are you sure it shut down to begin with?
> What does uptime say after you think its been shutdown?
>
> Maybe you are on your way down which may kill your networking, but then it 
> doesn't complete the shutdown.

This sounds like a hardware problem.  I've seen this before - a card doesn't 
actually turn off unless the power is removed.  So it's in some sort of 
weird hung state after a soft boot.

Can you replace the NIC and see if that fixes it?  If it does, you should 
really file a bug on the NIC that isn't resetting properly.

Thomas