 one of the methods described above, it is treated as <a href=/v1.12/docs/tasks/traffic-management/egress/egress-control/#envoy-passthrough-to-external-services>passthrough traffic</a>.
By default, these requests will be forwarded as-is, which ensures that traffic to services that Istio is not aware of (such as external services that do not have <code>ServiceEntry</code>s created) continues to function.
Note that when these requests are forwarded, mutual TLS will not be used and telemetry collection is limi