Why bother with a fancy Match block?

When you SSH into a fleet of servers that share a naming scheme, you usually end up copying-pasting the same options over and over. A Match block that tests the host name and then tweaks the connection parameters lets you:

• Keep a single config file that works for every member of the group.
• Automate proxying or port-translation without having to write a wrapper script.

The example below demonstrates the trick.