diff --git a/plugins/network/tc_ b/plugins/network/tc_
index 0d21c6cf..c912c89d 100755
--- a/plugins/network/tc_
+++ b/plugins/network/tc_
@@ -48,8 +48,21 @@ case $1 in
 	echo 'graph_vlabel bits per ${graph_period}'
 	echo 'graph_category network'
 	echo "graph_info This graph shows the TC classes traffic of the $DEVICE network interface. Please note that the traffic is shown in bits per second, not bytes."
-	
-	mytc $DEVICE | tr "_" " " | awk '{ print $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 ".label " $2 "/" $3 ":" $4 "\n" $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 ".type DERIVE\n" $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 ".min 0\n" $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 ".cdef " $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 ",8,*" }'
+
+	# the root(s)
+	mytc $DEVICE | grep -v " parent " | tr "_" " " | awk '{
+	    print $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 ".label " $2 "/" $3 ":" $4;
+	    print $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 ".type DERIVE";
+	    print $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 ".min 0";
+	    print $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 ".cdef " $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 ",8,*";
+	}'
+	# the child(s)
+	mytc $DEVICE | grep " parent " | tr "_" " " | awk '{
+	    print $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 ".label " $2 "/" $3 ":" $4;
+	    print $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 ".type DERIVE";
+	    print $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 ".min 0";
+	    print $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 ".cdef " $2 "_" $3 "_" $4 ",8,*";
+	 }'
         exit 0
 	;;
 esac