Simplify commands and link to Networking page

WSL/basic-commands.md

@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ For example:
 wsl --shutdown
 ```
 
-Immediately terminates all running distributions and the WSL 2 lightweight utility virtual machine. This command may be necessary in instances that require you to restart the WSL 2 virtual machine environment, such as [changing memory usage limits](/windows/wsl/disk-space) or making a change to your [.wslconfig file](./manage.md#).
+Immediately terminates all running distributions and the WSL 2 lightweight utility virtual machine. This command may be necessary in instances that require you to restart the WSL 2 virtual machine environment, such as [changing memory usage limits](/windows/wsl/disk-space) or making a change to your [.wslconfig file](./manage.md).
 
 ## Terminate
 
@@ -168,44 +168,10 @@ To terminate the specified distribution, or stop it from running, replace `<Dist
 
 ## Identify IP address
 
-There are two scenarios involved.
-
-Scenario One: From the perspective of the Windows host, you want to query a WSL2 distribution's IP address, so that a program on Windows host can connect to a server program running inside the WSL distribution(instance). 
-
-The Windows host can use command:
-
-```
-wsl -d <DistributionName> hostname -I
-```
-
-If we are querying the default distribution, we can omit `-d <DistributionName>` option.
-
-Under the hood, host command `wsl.exe` launches the target instance right away, and tells it to execute Linux command `hostname -I` (which prints WSL instance's own IP to STDOUT) then the STDOUT text content is relayed back to wsl.exe, and finally wsl.exe prints that out to us. 
-
-
-A typical output can be:
-
-```
-172.30.98.229
-```
-
-Scenario Two: A program running inside WSL2 instance wants to know the Windows host's IP address, so that a Linux program can connect to a Windows host server program. 
-
-The WSL2 Linux user can use command `cat /etc/resolv.conf`, which outputs something like:
-
-```
-# This file was automatically generated by WSL. To stop automatic generation of this file, add the following entry to /etc/wsl.conf:
-# [network]
-# generateResolvConf = false
-nameserver 172.30.96.1
-```
-
-So the `172.30.96.1` is the Window host's IP address, in this example.
-
-> [!NOTE]
-> These above IP address querying action is typically required when WSL2 is running with [NAT network mode](./networking.md#default-networking-mode-nat). 
-> When the WSL2 is running with new [mirrored mode](./networking.md#mirrored-mode-networking), the Windows host and WSL2 VM can connect to each other using `localhost` (127.0.0.1) as destination address, so the trick of query peer's IP address is not required.
+- `wsl hostname -I`: Returns the IP address of your Linux distribution installed via WSL 2 (the WSL 2 VM address)
+- `ip route show | grep -i default | awk '{ print $3}'`: Returns teh IP address of the Windows machine as seen from WSL 2 (the WSL 2 VM)
 
+For a more detailed explanation, see [Accessing network applications with WSL: Identify IP Address](./networking.md##identify-ip-address).
 
 ## Export a distribution