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Yuil Tripathee
Yuil Tripathee

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Network interfacing issues faced using WSL 2 (and fixes)

#wsl2 #lan #bugfixing #webdev

#1 - Memory not releasing back

It becomes overload to the system and eventually leading to Blue Screen of Death if not treated on time.

# only termination (still VM is alive) wsl -t kali-linux # shutdown wsl --shutdown kali-linux
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#2 - WSL2 network ports are virtual and cannot be accessed from LAN 

# for port forwarding netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport=8001 listenaddress=192.168.0.10 connectport=80 connectaddress=192.168.0.10 # for listing netsh interface portproxy show all # for cleanup netsh interface portproxy reset # or, netsh interface portproxy delete # ON and OFF netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport=4422 listenaddress=192.168.1.111 connectport=80 connectaddress=192.168.0.33 netsh interface portproxy delete v4tov4 listenport=4422 listenaddress=192.168.1.111
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You need to get Linux IP (use ip route). Check official docs for more information. Also, you can use NGINX with the following configuration:

events {} http { server { listen 192.168.1.111:4422; location / { proxy_pass http://192.168.2.33:80/; } } }
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