PPP Keepalive Ping - MikroTik Script RouterOS
The goal
I recently ran into an issue where PPTP connections would drop packets after idle time of 00:01:00 (1 min). I wrote this little script to run within this time, which resets idle time to 00:00:00, effectively solving this issue.
The script
:local addr
/ppp active {
:foreach i in=[find] do={
:if ([get $i service] = "pptp") do={
:set addr [get $i address]
/ping ($addr) count=1
}
}
}
The schedule
/system scheduler
add comment="" disabled=no interval=45s name=PPTP-KeepAlive on-event=PPTP-KeepAlive policy=read,test start-time=startup
