diff --git a/config/v1alpha1/types.go b/config/v1alpha1/types.go
index fc31406..7b29591 100644
--- a/config/v1alpha1/types.go
+++ b/config/v1alpha1/types.go
@@ -160,6 +160,8 @@ type KubeProxyConfiguration struct {
 	Winkernel KubeProxyWinkernelConfiguration `json:"winkernel"`
 	// ShowHiddenMetricsForVersion is the version for which you want to show hidden metrics.
 	ShowHiddenMetricsForVersion string `json:"showHiddenMetricsForVersion"`
+	// DetectLocalMode determines mode to use for detecting local traffic, defaults to LocalModeClusterCIDR
+	DetectLocalMode LocalMode `json:"detectLocalMode"`
 }
 
 // Currently, three modes of proxy are available in Linux platform: 'userspace' (older, going to be EOL), 'iptables'
@@ -176,3 +178,6 @@ type KubeProxyConfiguration struct {
 // future). If winkernel proxy is selected, regardless of how, but the Windows kernel can't support this mode of proxy,
 // this always falls back to the userspace proxy.
 type ProxyMode string
+
+// LocalMode represents modes to detect local traffic from the node
+type LocalMode string