Hello, To get access to hosts behind a NAT-router, I have put the following into my ssh-config: Host ext-gw.my-do.main ProxyCommand none Host *.my-do.main ProxyCommand ssh ext-gw.my-do.main nc -w1 %h 22 This works fine while being outside of the NATted network. Now I would like to configure a laptop in such a way that it is able to connect directly to the network as well as from the outside. For that, I'd like to do something like that: Host gw.my.do.main ProxyCommand none LocalHost ! *.my.do.main Host *.my.do.main ProxyCommand ssh gw.my.do.main nc -w1 %h 22 LocalHost * Of course, such a "LocalHost" option does not exist. Maybe there exist some other way to do this? BTW: I am using openssh as it comes with opensuse11.1 and ubuntu-8.10 opensus-11.1 $ ssh -V OpenSSH_5.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8h 28 May 2008 ubuntu-8.10 $ ssh -V OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-3ubuntu1, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007