Theo Wribe wrote:
Thanks for all your answers real nice of you all, after all I found out that every 10 minutes or so will do it to keep my dsl-connection alive. Kinda evil but hey I want my connection to stay connected :)Best regards Theo
alternatively you could just do a ping -c 10 -i 600 www.foobar.com This will send 10 packets, one every 10 minutes.