Bridged network mode

[nilay994]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I have a ROS2 application running on my WSL, which connects via ethernet to robots. It is frustrating to know that a bridged ethernet mode does not exist for WSL, and I need to follow cryptic steps to be able to send packets on the physical ethernet adapter. This adapter is configured via Windows 11 and has a fixed static IPv4 address.

Describe the solution you'd like
A runtime setting where it is possible to connect to any windows adapter. Ideally on doing so, ipconfig on WSL yields the static IP of the adapter configured via Windows 11. Should also allow changing back the WSL to start using the DHCP of Windows which has internet connection over a different adapter.

Describe alternatives you've considered
#9113

Additional context
No steps found in: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-config

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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:

• Multiple network interfaces, one of them bridged (#9113), similarity score: 0.80
• Add a neutral networkingMode in C:\Users\user.wslconfig (#11632), similarity score: 0.78
• WSL - vSwitch - Internal/Private - Static WSL IP/Subnet (#9251), similarity score: 0.77

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• Allow bridged networking for WSL 2 (#4472), similarity score: 0.77
• WSL2 bridge network (#5303), similarity score: 0.75

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[nilay994]

Thanks for the similarity score, there is a similar ticket open, closing this one.