return ipList
	}

	var ipV4s []net.IP
	var nonIPs []string
	for _, ip := range ipList {
		nip := net.ParseIP(ip)
		if nip != nil {
			ipV4s = append(ipV4s, nip)
		} else {
			nonIPs = append(nonIPs, ip)
		}
	}

	sort.Slice(ipV4s, func(i, j int) bool {
		// This case is needed when all ips in the list
		// have same last octets, Following just ensures that
		// 127.0.0.1 is moved to the end of the list.

// K8S may get a pod Add event without any IPs in the object, and the pod will later be updated with IPs.
//
// We always need the IPs, but this is fine because this AddPodToMesh can be called from the CNI plugin as well,
// which always has the firsthand info of the IPs, even before K8S does - so we pass them separately here because
// we actually may have them before K8S in the Pod object.