}
	}

	configurator := &IptablesConfigurator{
		ext:    ext,
		nlDeps: nlDeps,
		cfg:    cfg,
	}

	// By detecting iptables versions *here* once-for-all we are
	// committing to using the same binary/variant (legacy or nft)
	// within all pods as we do on the host.
	//
	// This should be fine, as the host binaries are all we have to work with here anyway,

		// net.ip is implicitly convertible to netip as slice
		ip, _ := netip.AddrFromSlice(configuredPodIPs.Address.IP)
		// We ignore the mask of the IPNet - it's fine if the IPNet defines
		// a block grant of addresses, we just need one for checking routes.
		podIps = append(podIps, ip)
	}
	// Note that we use the IP info from the CNI plugin here - the Pod struct as reported by K8S doesn't have this info