kali linux does not return mac address when running in wsl v2

[kf0adx]

Windows Version

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.26100.2894

WSL Version

WSL version: 2.3.26.0 Kernel version: 5.15.167.4-1 WSLg version: 1.0.65 MSRDC version: 1.2.5620 Direct3D version: 1.611.1-81528511 DXCore version: 10.0.26100.1-240331-1435.ge-release Windows version: 10.0.26100.2894

Are you using WSL 1 or WSL 2?

• WSL 2
• WSL 1

Kernel Version

5.15.1674-1

Distro Version

Ubuntu 2004.4

Other Software

nmap -sn 192.168.0.0/24
nmap does not return MAC addresses for devices found using various command line arguments

Repro Steps

open kali linux
open kex gui
open terminal window inside kex
run sudo nmap -sn 192.168.0.0/24

Expected Behavior

should return mac addresses with the hosts IP

Actual Behavior

└─# sudo nmap -sn 192.168.0.252
Starting Nmap 7.94SVN ( https://nmap.org ) at 2025-01-24 21:11 CST
Nmap scan report for 192.168.0.252
Host is up (0.0021s latency).
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.26 seconds

Diagnostic Logs

No response

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WslLogs-2025-01-24_21-45-50.zip

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The log file doesn't contain any WSL traces. Please make sure that you reproduced the issue while the log collection was running.

Diagnostic information

Detected appx version: 2.3.26.0
Found no WSL traces in the logs