diff --git a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java
index 8d3a0e9cdf1..e3f60f2357f 100755
--- a/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java
+++ b/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtComputingResource.java
@@ -1055,7 +1055,7 @@ ServerResource {
             String fname = interfaces[i].getName();
             s_logger.debug("matchPifFileInDirectory: file name '"+fname+"'");
             if (fname.startsWith("eth") || fname.startsWith("bond")
-                || fname.startsWith("vlan") || fname.startsWith("em")
+                || fname.startsWith("vlan") || fname.startsWith("vxlan") || fname.startsWith("em")
                 || fname.matches("^p\\d+p\\d+.*")) {
                 return fname;
             }
diff --git a/python/lib/cloudutils/serviceConfig.py b/python/lib/cloudutils/serviceConfig.py
index 4ed9a57079c..d7c7e78c3ab 100755
--- a/python/lib/cloudutils/serviceConfig.py
+++ b/python/lib/cloudutils/serviceConfig.py
@@ -96,8 +96,9 @@ class networkConfigBase:
                 return False
             if self.syscfg.env.bridgeType == "openvswitch" and not self.netcfg.isOvsBridge(br):
                 raise CloudInternalException("%s is not an openvswitch bridge" % br)
-            if self.syscfg.env.bridgeType == "native" and not self.netcfg.isBridge(br):
-                raise CloudInternalException("%s is not a bridge" % br)
+            if self.syscfg.env.bridgeType == "native" and not self.netcfg.isBridge(br) and not self.netcfg.isNetworkDev(br):
+                # traffic label doesn't have to be a bridge, we'll create bridges on it
+                raise CloudInternalException("%s is not a bridge and not a net device" % br)
             preCfged = True
 
         return preCfged