From 81b7893dd1627c43464064e670583803aca2d5ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Geiger <geigereitan@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 17:23:08 +0200
Subject: ifdown removes veth pair if both peers are down

---
 network-scripts/ifdown-eth | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/network-scripts/ifdown-eth b/network-scripts/ifdown-eth
index 7b457e85..8d62200f 100755
--- a/network-scripts/ifdown-eth
+++ b/network-scripts/ifdown-eth
@@ -180,4 +180,10 @@ if [ -n "$VLAN" ]; then
     fi
 fi
 
+if [ "${TYPE}" = "Veth" ]; then
+    if [ $(ip link show ${PEER} up | wc -l) -eq 0 ]; then
+        ip link delete ${DEVICE}
+    fi
+fi
+
 exit $retcode
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