Start a distro with fixed MAC address on WSL2
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The MAC address of distro changes every time it is started.. Some software license is based on MAC address. Changes will make license unusable.
Describe the solution you'd like
I wish we can have similar option like wsl -d distro --mac xxx.xxx
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the command-line handling for wsl -d distro and the WSL2 distro startup networking path. Determine how a user-supplied MAC address should be validated and applied; done means the distro starts with the requested address consistently without breaking existing startup behavior.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- cli, networking, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100