diff --git a/mxrouter/mxrouterctl b/mxrouter/mxrouterctl
index 457241a..d394948 100755
--- a/mxrouter/mxrouterctl
+++ b/mxrouter/mxrouterctl
@@ -374,6 +374,7 @@ sub radvd {
 }
 
 our $want_if;
+our $want_veth;
 
 our $DHCRELAY_FORWARD;
 our %DHCRELAY_IF;
@@ -483,7 +484,7 @@ sub start {
 
 	netif_is_up('lo') or sys('ip link set lo up');
 
-	for my $dev (keys %$want_if) {
+	for my $dev (keys %$want_if, keys %$want_veth) {
 		netif_is_up($dev) or sys('ip','link','set',$dev,'up');
 	}
 
@@ -622,6 +623,11 @@ sub interface {
 	$want_if->{$dev}=1;
 }
 
+sub veth {
+	my ($dev) = @_;
+	$want_veth->{$dev} = 1;
+}
+
 my @SAVED_ARGV=@ARGV;
 
 GetOptions(OPTIONS) or die USAGE;
@@ -776,6 +782,9 @@ if (!$opt_this_ns) {
 		for my $dev (sort keys %$want_if) {
 			move_dev_into_ns($dev,$NETNS);
 		}
+		for my $dev (sort keys %$want_veth) {
+			sys('ip', 'link', 'add', $dev, 'type', 'veth', 'peer', 'name', $dev, 'netns', $NETNS);
+		}
 		system('ip','netns','exec',$NETNS,$0,'--this-ns',@SAVED_ARGV) and exit 1;
 	} elsif ($cmd eq 'stop') {
 		have_netns($NETNS) or die "not running (network namespace $NETNS does not exist)\n";