.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man .\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: .\" .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng . .TH "SPPP_REOPEN" "9" "09 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME sppp_reopen \- notify of physical link loss .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp int sppp_reopen (struct net_device * \fIdev\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIdev\fB\fR Device that lost the link .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP This function informs the synchronous protocol code that the underlying link died (for example a carrier drop on X.21) .PP We increment the magic numbers to ensure that if the other end failed to notice we will correctly start a new session. It happens do to the nature of telco circuits is that you can lose carrier on one endonly. .PP Having done this we go back to negotiating. This function may be called from an interrupt context.