WSL2 Set static ip?

[scrossan-crown]

This maybe the wrong place to post this but not sure where else to post. Is it currently possible to set a static ip for the WSL2 machine?

I'm loving WSL2 so far with docker and vscode and my only issue is dynamic ip at the moment.

[edwindijas]

There is a work around. You can port forward to host ip.
Check the below link.
#4150

[zippaaa]

I agree with the author of the question, please, Wsl2 must have option "static IP". Maybe cmd: wsl --ip <Distro> <IP address>?

[scrossan-crown]

My issue isn't just with port forwarding and docker. The biggest issue was that I am using VSCode remote development extension and remote developing in WSL and if I need to restart WSL2 to release some resources then I can't just reconnect in the usual way and any unsaved changes get lost which accidentally happened last week.

[MiklerGM]

@alekseymvt
You could execute any command using wsl like this

wsl -- ifconfig eth0

[yanyan33333]

Any solution?
also see MicrosoftDocs/WSL#418 (comment)

The Hyper-V Switch IP change everytime when the windows reboot, so the gateway in wsl 2 also need to change

[GhostvOne]

Looking for a solution too :)

[MiklerGM]

With the latest update, you can access remote ports(WSL2) as local on Windows Host

You can have a look at this Windows Service - assign a static hostname for WSL machine

[zippaaa]

With the latest update, you can access remote ports(WSL2) as local on Windows Host

Can anybody check?:
Will "http://mysite" work too, if I add "127.0.0.1 mysite" in "windows/hosts"? or localhost only?

[MiklerGM]

Yes, it should work

[scrossan-crown]

It would be nice but instead of WSL 2 ports being bound to 127.0.0.1 they are bound to ::1 and that doesn't work in the browser or hosts file. So we got localhost support but not in a way we can map other domains to it.

[moigagoo]

@MiklerGM

Yes, it should work

It doesn't, unfortunately. To point a custom domain to WSL, I'm adding a line like 172.25.203.130 mysite.com, where 172.25.203.130 is the IP of eth0 interface of the WSL VM: ip addr show eth0 | grep 'inet\b' | awk '{print $2}' | cut -d/ -f1

[MiklerGM]

@moigagoo check out this https://github.com/shayne/go-wsl2-host you can do it automatically with this service

[moigagoo]

@MiklerGM Thanks, I've seen it. I'm OK with my own self-written script.

[MiklerGM]

btw, I have no problem accessing the custom domain, for example, test.com from my browser
My hosts file on Windows host machine

127.0.0.1 localhost api db test.com
172.20.124.104 wsl.local