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Posted by Dexanth   (5 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Fri 19 Jun 2009 07:55 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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So, my WRT54G router's firmware is set up in such a way that I can't alter the automatic idle timeout, which disconnects me from MU*s after approximately 10 minutes of idle time.

The only solution for this I've found is setting up a timer to fire every 9 minutes that sends 'ping' to the server and gets a generic 'I don't understand what you mean' response.

I've figured out how to omit the 'ping' from both my output buffer and log, and I would like to omit the generic server reply as well.

Is there any simple way for me to do this?
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (18,770 posts)  [Biography] bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #1 on Fri 19 Jun 2009 08:11 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Can't you send just a blank line? Anything would keep Mr. WRT54G happy, and then the server won't respond with an error message.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Dexanth   (5 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #2 on Fri 19 Jun 2009 02:27 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Along the lines of just hitting enter, or hitting spacebar + enter?

Apologies on the sudden cluelessness, I was under the impression completely empty lines didn't get sent at all.
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Posted by Fadedparadox   USA  (91 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #3 on Fri 19 Jun 2009 02:52 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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They get sent. In Lua, I do this: Send ()
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Posted by Dexanth   (5 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #4 on Fri 19 Jun 2009 08:23 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Awesome.

So, second dumb question then : How do I set up the Lua to execute that?
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (18,770 posts)  [Biography] bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #5 on Fri 19 Jun 2009 10:18 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Set the timer to "send to script" and put the Send () in the "send" box.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Dexanth   (5 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #6 on Sat 20 Jun 2009 03:29 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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And then, hopefully last newbie question, how do I go about omitting the blank line from output? The standard timer omit from output doesn't seem to be kicking in unlike with running a gibberish timer.

Or is that simply a blank reply from the server or something similar?
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (18,770 posts)  [Biography] bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #7 on Sat 20 Jun 2009 03:42 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Use SendNoEcho instead of Send:

http://www.gammon.com.au/scripts/doc.php?function=SendNoEcho
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Dexanth   (5 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #8 on Sat 20 Jun 2009 03:47 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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Perfect! I think that should wrap up everything I wanted in a nice package.

Barring some unexpected failure along the line I think that solves my issue.

Thanks a heap for the help, and for the great client :)
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