Omitting server response to ping timer

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?

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.

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.

They get sent. In Lua, I do this: Send ()

Awesome.

So, second dumb question then : How do I set up the Lua to execute that?

Set the timer to "send to script" and put the Send () in the "send" box.

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?

Use SendNoEcho instead of Send:

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

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 :)