Can't reconnect after ISP disconnected me

[Kent West <kent.west@infotech.acu.edu>]

I was connected via ppp to my ISP and doing large download (dselect's ftp
of a bunch of packages). The ISP has a three-hour-at-a-time limit, so it
disconnected me mid-download. dselect is willing to pick up where it left
off, but when I try to pon to reconnect, I'm not getting reconnected. The
relevant output of plog is:

-- got it
send (\d)
Serial connection established.
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xefe7> <pcomp> <accomp>]
last message repeated 9 times
LCP: timout sending Config-Requests
Connection terminated.
Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean:
Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
Exit.

I suspect that if I reboot my linux box, I could then reconnect, but I hate
to do that simply because I'm tying to get out of the Windows-bred habit of
rebooting to solve problems.

Thanks for any help.


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