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Execute the following from admin powershell

get the ip address seen by wsl servers

wsl hostname -I

connect from wsl to windows host

  • netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport=8000 listenaddress=0.0.0.0 connectport=8000 connectaddress=172.17.225.2
  • netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport=4443 listenaddress=0.0.0.0 connectport=4443 connectaddress=172.17.225.2
ip = wsl -- ip -o -4 -json addr list eth0 | python3 -c "import sys,json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)[0]['addr_info'][0]['local'])"
netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport=$port listenaddress=0.0.0.0 connectport=$port connectaddress=$ip
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