TomatoUSB

I have a dumb question. I have a Tomato-based OpenVPN running great but when here is inactivity the connection drops. So when I'm at the office (SERVER SIDE) and want to access something at home (CLIENT), I have to start pinging the address of the home router, and eventually it starts responding and the connection is up (which, BTW, I find interesting, almost as if the client checks every 1-2 minutes to see if it should start a connection).

ANYHOW, is there a way to keep the connection "up," like a KEEPALIVE or anything? And where would I add that?

Under custom configuration try something like:

keepalive 10 60

This is straight out of the openvpn documentation. I haven't used it, so I can't say how well this works.