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This doesn't ring a bell on the rancher-desktop side. Could you repost this at #k3s (although I'm not sure you can easily use k3s in WSL2 without having Rancher Desktop set up the proper infrastructure?

Sounds like this is a bit different, but in case it’s relevant there have been some port issues with 1.8 -1.9 tech preview on Windows https://rancher-users.slack.com/archives/C0200L1N1MM/p1681814748093939