diff --git a/WALinuxAgent.spec b/WALinuxAgent.spec
index 351db8c..480b074 100644
--- a/WALinuxAgent.spec
+++ b/WALinuxAgent.spec
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 Name:           WALinuxAgent
 Version:        2.9.1.1
-Release:        8%{?dist}
+Release:        9%{?dist}
 Summary:        The Microsoft Azure Linux Agent
 
 License:        Apache-2.0
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ Patch2: wla-Disable-automatic-log-collector.patch
 Patch3: wla-redhat-Use-NetworkManager-to-set-DHCP-hostnames-on-r.patch
 # For RHEL-46713 - [Azure][RHEL-10][WALA] waagent -collect-logs doesn't work and the log is confusing
 Patch4: wla-skip-cgorup-monitor-2939.patch
+# For RHEL-68796 - Please add `mana` to 99-azure-unmanaged-devices.conf of Azure image
+Patch5: wla-redhat-Add-a-udev-rule-to-avoid-managing-slave-NICs-.patch
 
 BuildArch:      noarch
 
@@ -129,6 +131,11 @@ rm -rf %{_unitdir}/waagent.service.d/
 %endif
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Jan 13 2025 Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com> - 2.9.1.1-9
+- wla-redhat-Add-a-udev-rule-to-avoid-managing-slave-NICs-.patch [RHEL-68796]
+- Resolves: RHEL-68796
+  (Please add `mana` to 99-azure-unmanaged-devices.conf of Azure image)
+
 * Tue Oct 29 2024 Troy Dawson <tdawson@redhat.com> - 2.9.1.1-8
 - Bump release for October 2024 mass rebuild:
   Resolves: RHEL-64018
diff --git a/wla-redhat-Add-a-udev-rule-to-avoid-managing-slave-NICs-.patch b/wla-redhat-Add-a-udev-rule-to-avoid-managing-slave-NICs-.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6d73a27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/wla-redhat-Add-a-udev-rule-to-avoid-managing-slave-NICs-.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+From dd3a8f78ef32aed2f1267dd7dd495c65edd259a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
+Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 17:13:11 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] redhat: Add a udev rule to avoid managing slave NICs with
+ NetworkManager
+
+RH-Author: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
+RH-MergeRequest: 15: redhat: Add a udev rule to avoid managing slave NICs with NetworkManager
+RH-Jira: RHEL-68796
+RH-Acked-by: Ani Sinha <anisinha@redhat.com>
+RH-Acked-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>
+RH-Acked-by: Cathy Avery <cavery@redhat.com>
+RH-Commit: [1/1] f6a5ab0e22831b67fc48afc8e80b724fcb9c8503 (vkuznets/WALinuxAgentCentOS)
+
+This is borrowed from https://github.com/Azure/azure-vm-utils/pull/41 and
+the long term plan is to get azure-vm-utils packaged for RHEL
+eventually. For the time being, just put the required udev rule into
+WALinuxAgent package.
+
+Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
+---
+ config/10-azure-unmanaged-sriov.rules | 6 ++++++
+ setup.py                              | 3 ++-
+ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+ create mode 100644 config/10-azure-unmanaged-sriov.rules
+
+diff --git a/config/10-azure-unmanaged-sriov.rules b/config/10-azure-unmanaged-sriov.rules
+new file mode 100644
+index 00000000..7eefcb26
+--- /dev/null
++++ b/config/10-azure-unmanaged-sriov.rules
+@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
++# Azure VMs with accelerated networking may have MANA, mlx4, or mlx5 SR-IOV devices which are transparently bonded to a synthetic
++# hv_netvsc device.  Mark devices with the IFF_SLAVE bit set as unmanaged devices:
++#   AZURE_UNMANAGED_SRIOV=1 for 10-azure-unmanaged-sriov.network
++#   ID_NET_MANAGED_BY=unmanaged for systemd-networkd >= 255
++#   NM_UNMANAGED=1 for NetworkManager
++SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION!="remove", DRIVERS=="mana|mlx4_core|mlx5_core", ATTR{flags}=="0x?[89ABCDEF]??", ENV{AZURE_UNMANAGED_SRIOV}="1", ENV{ID_NET_MANAGED_BY}="unmanaged", ENV{NM_UNMANAGED}="1"
+diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
+index 8f5d92b4..f76aff30 100755
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -82,7 +82,8 @@ def set_openbsd_rc_files(data_files, dest="/etc/rc.d/", src=None):
+ 
+ def set_udev_files(data_files, dest="/etc/udev/rules.d/", src=None):
+     if src is None:
+-        src = ["config/66-azure-storage.rules",
++        src = ["config/10-azure-unmanaged-sriov.rules",
++               "config/66-azure-storage.rules",
+                "config/99-azure-product-uuid.rules"]
+     data_files.append((dest, src))
+ 
+-- 
+2.39.3
+