uting decisions are based on the Service IP address.</p><p>One implication of this is that direct calls to pods (for example, <code>curl &lt;POD_IP></code>), rather than Services, will not be matched. While the traffic may
be <a href=/v1.10/docs/tasks/traffic-management/egress/egress-control/#envoy-passthrough-to-external-services>passed through</a>, it will not get the full Istio functionality
including mTLS encryption, traffic routing, and telemetry.</p><nav id=see-also><h2>See also</h2><div class=see-als