How-to: Keep Shell Connection

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It happens too often that I get disconnected from a shell connection after a while of inactivity with message Write failed: Broken pipe. To prevent this, simply put:

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Host *
    ServerAliveInterval 30

in your ~/.ssh/config (OS X) or /etc/ssh/ssh_config (Linux) file.

This will make sure that null packet will be sent every 30 seconds (you can edit the interval) to the server to keep the connection alive.