SSH: Keep Connection Alive

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SSH connection will automatically drop due to timeout if there is no operation for a period. To keep connection alive, we can config ssh client to send a keepalive periodically. In ~/.ssh/config, there is a parameter for this:

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ServerAliveInterval 60

If we set this value to 60, SSH client will send a keepalive every 60 seconds.