diff --git a/check_netio b/check_netio
index 25f88fc3cd2f6ea59a38dc2ce5a5be6bfd0543c6..88fb012f808160962568c441676f39c31638d39a 100755
--- a/check_netio
+++ b/check_netio
@@ -12,20 +12,22 @@
 # 2023-09-22  v1.4  <axel.hahn@unibe.ch>      fix syntax error -eq: unary operator expected
 # 2024-01-10  v1.5  <axel.hahn@unibe.ch>      added regex filter for include and exclude
 # 2024-03-04  v1.6  <axel.hahn@unibe.ch>      remove Kubernetes interfaces
+# 2024-03-26  v1.7  <axel.hahn@unibe.ch>      ignore docker and veth interfaces
 # ======================================================================
 
 
 . $( dirname $0 )/inc_pluginfunctions
 
-export self_APPVERSION=1.6
+export self_APPVERSION=1.7
 
 # network data without non physical interfaces to be removed from /proc/net/dev
 # - lo      - local
 # - bond    - bonded interfaces
 # - ppp     - dialer connections
+# - docker  - Docker / Docker Swarm interfaces, e.g. docker0, docker_gwbridge
 # - cali    - Kubernetes interfaces
 # - flannel - layer 3 fabric for Kubernetes
-nonPhysicalInterfaces="(lo|bond.*|ppp.*|cali.*|flannel.*):"
+nonPhysicalInterfaces="(lo|bond.*|cali.*|docker.*|flannel.*|ppp.*|veth.*):"
 
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 # FUNCTIONS
diff --git a/docs/20_Checks/check_netio.md b/docs/20_Checks/check_netio.md
index 57391503d9ffef18dcfc8f4b84da1e436cd6d382..0c52dd0c7ccf32a22a851d803cafdfb0b6fa8b4a 100644
--- a/docs/20_Checks/check_netio.md
+++ b/docs/20_Checks/check_netio.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ This plugin scans `/proc/net/dev` with the regex `eth|en[ops][0-9]*` to show a f
 ______________________________________________________________________
 
 CHECK_NETIO
-v1.6
+v1.7
 
 (c) Institute for Medical Education - University of Bern
 Licence: GNU GPL 3