// or via the cni plugin. If it happens to get here before the cni plugin somehow,
			// then we will just fail to add the pod to the mesh, and it will be retried later when cni plugin adds it.

			// We need a pod IP - if the pod was added via the CNI plugin, that plugin told us the IPs
			// for the pod. If this is a pod added via informer, the pod should have already gone thru

	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("error configuring iptables: %w", err)
	}

	// Create hostprobe rules now, in the host netns
	// Later we will reuse this same configurator inside the pod netns for adding other rules
	iptablesConfigurator.DeleteHostRules()