Is it possible to access WSL outside through ipv6?

[AnakinShieh]

I'm trying to access WSL like ssh remotely through ipv6 because I don't have a public ipv4 address, following configs like networkingMode=mirrored and hostAddressLoopback to enable ipv6 and expose wsl ports to windows and creating firewall rule for hyper-v to enable inbound rule for specific port (here, 22000 for SSH of WSL)1. But I still failed to establish ssh connection remotely/even locally through ipv6 address but successfully over ipv4 address. And at the same time, the ssh to windows ssh and a bridged-network virtual machine through ipv6 are all OK. While at the same time, I found it failed to access a ipv6 web server in WSL from Windows.

I'd like to know if it's possible to access WSL outside through ipv6, I haven't tried to disable networkingMode=mirrored and use netsh to create proxy v4 (WSL) to v6 (Windows) and don't know if it could work.

My current version and wsl conf is as follows,

WSL version: 2.2.4.0
Kernel version: 5.15.153.1-2
WSLg version: 1.0.61
MSRDC version: 1.2.5326
Direct3D version: 1.611.1-81528511
DXCore version: 10.0.26091.1-240325-1447.ge-release
Windows version: 10.0.22631.3880

wsl conf

[wsl2]
memory=180GB
networkingMode=mirrored
dnsTunneling=true

[experimental]
hostAddressLoopback=true
autoMemoryReclaim=gradual

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