excludeInboundPorts: ""
      includeInboundPorts: "*"

      # istio egress capture allowlist
      # https://istio.io/docs/tasks/traffic-management/egress.html#calling-external-services-directly
      # example: includeIPRanges: "172.30.0.0/16,172.20.0.0/16"
      # would only capture egress traffic on those two IP Ranges, all other outbound traffic would
      # be allowed by the sidecar

	// this can happen if the pod was dynamically added to the mesh after it was created.
	// in that case, try finding the netns using procfs.
	if err := s.rescanPod(pod); err != nil {
		log.Errorf("error scanning proc: error was %s", err)
		return nil, err
	}
	// try again. we can still get here if the pod is in the process of being created.
	// in this case the CNI will be invoked soon and provide us with the netns.

	assert.NoError(t, err)
	fakeIPSetDeps.AssertExpectations(t)
}

// for tests that call `runtime.GC()` - we have no control over when the GC is actually scheduled,
// and it is flake-prone to check for closure after calling it, this retries for a bit to make
// sure the netns is closed eventually.
func assertNSClosed(t *testing.T, closed *atomic.Bool) {
	for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
		if closed.Load() {
			return
		}

      excludeInboundPorts: ""
      includeInboundPorts: "*"
      # istio egress capture allowlist
      # https://istio.io/docs/tasks/traffic-management/egress.html#calling-external-services-directly
      # example: includeIPRanges: "172.30.0.0/16,172.20.0.0/16"
      # would only capture egress traffic on those two IP Ranges, all other outbound traffic would
      # be allowed by the sidecar