Option to explicitly specify static IP range for WSL2

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I can not use automatically randomly generated network ranges on my workstation.

Describe the solution you'd like
Allow to set static range in the configuration file. Apply the requested configuration when creating NAT device

Describe alternatives you've considered
Changing Operating System vendor. This issue has been ignored for ages without any comments: #4467 . There's many similar issues pending for what seems to be extremely trivial to fix on WSL side.

Using mirrored mode. But that's a no-go. It's completely undocumented from security perspective. I have fears that it will effectively bridge Windows through WSL2 in public network without applying security policies. I'm not willing nor have I time to manage WSL2 firewall configuration.

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View similar issues

Please view the issues below to see if they solve your problem, and if the issue describes your problem please consider closing this one and thumbs upping the other issue to help us prioritize it!

Open similar issues:

• WSL - vSwitch - Internal/Private - Static WSL IP/Subnet (#9251), similarity score: 0.78
• Provide static IP option in .wslconfig (or elsewhere) (#6858), similarity score: 0.75
• Select static subnet and pinned IP address for WSL (#7820), similarity score: 0.73

Closed similar issues:

• Allow setting Windows vEthernet (WSL) RFC1918 selection (#4601), similarity score: 0.75
• allow us to specify hyper-v virtual switch network adapter for wsl2 (#5835), similarity score: 0.73

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