f we use <code>sockops</code> to directly connect the sidecar’s socket to the application’s socket, the traffic will not need to go through iptables rules, and thus performance can be improved.</p><h3 id=processing-outbound-traffic>Processing outbound traffic</h3><p>As mentioned above, we would like to use eBPF’s <code>sockops</code> to bypass iptables to accelerate network requests. At the same time, we also do not want to modify any parts of Istio, to make Merbridge fully adaptive to the community v