diff --git a/man4/veth.4 b/man4/veth.4
index 842318e31..da7610b1f 100644
--- a/man4/veth.4
+++ b/man4/veth.4
@@ -61,6 +61,15 @@ A particularly interesting use case is to place one end of a
 .B veth
 pair in one network namespace and the other end in another network namespace,
 thus allowing communication between network namespaces.
+To do this, one first creates the
+.B veth
+device as above and then moves one side of the pair to the other namespace:
+.PP
+.in +4n
+.EX
+# ip link set <p2-name> netns <p2-namespace>
+.EE
+.in
 .PP
 .BR ethtool (8)
 can be used to find the peer of a