How to apply static routes made on windows to Linux OS running on WSL

[elhananjair]

Hello friends,
I have two networks connected to my computer and I want to add some static route to access some service on let's say 10.35.12.12, since the default gateway to access this service is different from the other one, I need to add additional IP which sync with the gateway which is 172.50.65.1, therefore I added secondary IP to the current network adapter. After that I executed static route command on PowerShell. The result is, I could access the service on Windows OS, but it fails on Linux. I am running Windows Server 24h2 with NAT configured on WSL Network settings. On Linux WSL, I can not also access internet or other networks after I changed the network setting on Windows OS.

Is there something I am missing?

[elhananjair]

anyone?

[OneBlue]

@elhananjair: have you tried mirrored networking ? That should be the best networking mode for your scenario.

[elhananjair]

@elhananjair: have you tried mirrored networking ? That should be the best networking mode for your scenario.

Yep unfortunately mirrored networking doesn't work on windows server 2025 I have only one option and that is NAT

[OneBlue]

Yep unfortunately mirrored networking doesn't work on windows server 2025 I have only one option and that is NAT

Hmm that surprises me. What error do you get if you try to enable mirrored networking ?

[elhananjair]

Yep unfortunately mirrored networking doesn't work on windows server 2025 I have only one option and that is NAT

Hmm that surprises me. What error do you get if you try to enable mirrored networking ?

Here is the issue I and many of us who use Windows Server facing on enabling Mirrored mode. Here is the GitHub issue link:

#11154 (comment)