This works in reverse as well, which is useful to use your laptop as a proxy. Suppose you can SSH to a server that can't connect to something your laptop can,

This works in reverse as well, which is useful to use your laptop as a proxy. Suppose you can SSH to a server that can't connect to something your laptop can, like a git server accessible only over VPN. ssh -D8081 localhost ssh -R8081:localhost:8081 some.remote.server http_proxy=socks5h://localhost:8081 git clone git@git.corp:foo/bar.git