Well, there is probably a cleverer approach, but the nasty workaround I came up with is: run some non-resource intensive command that will keep data moving across the wire at regular intervals.
e.g.
$ while true ; do clear ; w ; sleep 5 ; done
Fire that up if you're going to be away from your terminal for a couple minutes. (Make it an alias if you'd like.)
Alternatively, after logging into to your FBSD server, you could start up a screen session. If and when you're disconnected, you can just login and resume where you left off with screen -r.
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