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diff --git a/src/collectd.conf.pod b/src/collectd.conf.pod
index 9377686a..0fcd6746 100644
--- a/src/collectd.conf.pod
+++ b/src/collectd.conf.pod
@@ -1563,6 +1563,16 @@ You can also specify combinations of these fields. For example B<name uuid>
 means to concatenate the guest name and UUID (with a literal colon character
 between, thus I<"foo:1234-1234-1234-1234">).
 
+=item B<InterfaceFormat> B<name>|B<address>
+
+When the libvirt plugin logs interface data, it sets the name of the collected
+data according to this setting. The default is to use the path as provided by
+the hypervisor (the "dev" property of the target node), which is equal to
+setting B<name>.
+
+B<address> means use the interface's mac address. This is useful since the
+interface path might change between reboots of a guest or across migrations.
+
 =back
 
 =head2 Plugin C<logfile>