Unable to access VPN from WSL2 when networking mode set to mirrored

[AlexandreDenis]

Windows Version

Microsoft Windows [version 10.0.22631.3007]

WSL Version

2.0.9.0

Are you using WSL 1 or WSL 2?

• WSL 2
• WSL 1

Kernel Version

5.15.133.1-1

Distro Version

Ubuntu-20.04

Other Software

No response

Repro Steps

1. Connect to VPN on Windows
2. Set networking mode to mirrored in .wslconfig file on Windows
3. Relaunch WSL
4. From WSL, try to ping any private IP address of the VPN. It does not work anymore while it was working with default networking mode

Expected Behavior

I would have expected to be able to access to VPN connection from WSL

Actual Behavior

Ping command to any private IP address of the VPN fails

Diagnostic Logs

No response

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[Tofu-AKI]

though don't know why, trying to manually install it really worked. the conclusion I came to after trying for several days.

[tomadimitrie]

Same issue here. Any workaround yet?

@Tofu-AKI sorry, but I don't understand what you mean. How did you solve it?

Edit: So if anyone is using OpenVPN, apparently it's known issue in #10879. Only the official OpenVPN clients (both versions 2 and 3) are affected. Other clients such as Viscosity work great

[rayae]

Thanks to @tomadimitrie, I tried Viscosity and it worked well.

[yakuninmax]

I'm using the latest version of WSL, mirroring mode. OpenVPN Connect 3 works with ipv6, but does not work with ipv4, Viscosity works with ipv4, but does not work with ipv6 :)

[dangaogit]

Hello, is there any progress on this issue at the moment?

[CatalinFetoiu]

hi, can you please collect logs using instructions below?

please do the following:
Run https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/master/diagnostics/collect-networking-logs.ps1
disconnect VPN
run "wsl --shutdown"
start WSL
connect VPN
reproduce the issue
stop collect-networking-logs.ps1 and share the generated zip

please also refer to https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#collect-wsl-logs-for-networking-issues before running the script - you need to install tcpdump and WPR.

what is the name of the VPN product you are using?

[dangaogit]

@CatalinFetoiu
use OpenVPN Connect 3.4.4
The collected networking logs are too large to upload.

[CatalinFetoiu]

@dangaogit thanks for following up
unfortunately at the moment openvpn is known to be incompatible with mirrored mode networking. this is tracked in #10879

/dupe #10879

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