Keeping Your ssh Connection Alive Feb 11, 2009, 04 :32 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (5299 reads) (Other stories by Juliet Kemp)
"You can fix this using the SSH config option ServerAliveInterval. SSH options can be set on the command-line (with the -o option), or by editing your ~/.ssh/config or /etc/ssh_config files. Note that SSH uses the first setting that it encounters for an option, and it reads command-line options, then per-user config, then the global config, and general/default ones at the end."