blog post explores the following two scenarios with corresponding diagrams:</p><ul><li><strong>The network path of services in ambient mode to services in sidecar mode</strong></li><li><strong>The network path of services in sidecar mode to services in ambient mode</strong></li></ul><h2 id=information-about-the-analysis>Information about the analysis</h2><p>The analysis is based on Istio 1.18.2, where ambient mode uses iptables for redirection.</p><h2 id=ambient-mode-sleep-to-sidecar-mode-httpbin>Ambient mo