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In order to make wsl-hosted services accessible from outside of the windows machine, there are two options:

1. Bridge mode

Shutdown WSL: wsl --shutdown
Open Hyper-V Manager as administrator
Select your pc, open Virtual Switch Manager
Create new adapter, call it "WSL-Bridge"
Set to "External network"
open %USERPROFILE%/.wslconfig
in [wsl2] section, add:
```
`networkingMode = bridged`
```
nvmSwitch = WSL-Bridge
login into wsl
sudo ip addr add 192.168.1.121/24 dev eth0
sudo ip addr flush dev eth0
sudo dhclient eth0

To make persistent

vim /etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml

network:
  version: 2
  renderer: networkd
  ethernets:
    eth0:
      dhcp4: yes
      addresses: [192.168.1.121/24]
      routes:
        - to: default
          via: 192.168.1.1

sudo netplan apply

2. Mirrored mode

Will share windows network device with wsl

in %USERPROFILE%/.wslconfig under [wsl2] add networkingMode = mirrored

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