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May 11, 2023 23:42
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Forward traffic on a port that goes to localhost, to go to WSL instead.
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # Check if the first positional parameter is empty | |
| if [ -z "$1" ]; then | |
| # Assign a default value if the parameter is empty | |
| listenport=7000 | |
| else | |
| listenport=$1 | |
| fi | |
| wsl_ip=$(ifconfig | grep -oP 'inet (?!127)\K[0-9.]+' | head -n 1) | |
| echo "Forwarding data going to 0.0.0.0:$listenport to $wsl_ip:$listenport..." | |
| /mnt/c/Windows/System32/cmd.exe /c netsh interface portproxy delete v4tov4 listenport=$listenport listenaddress=0.0.0.0 protocol=tcp | |
| /mnt/c/Windows/System32/cmd.exe /c netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport=$listenport listenaddress=0.0.0.0 connectport=$1 connectaddress=$wsl_ip |
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When hosting a server on WSL, if you want to make it accessible to other computers on the local network, it's not accessible by default. We need to forward the data to WSL. This script handles that automatically.