diff --git a/dracut/30ignition/coreos-teardown-initramfs-network.service b/dracut/30ignition/coreos-teardown-initramfs-network.service
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1a49753
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dracut/30ignition/coreos-teardown-initramfs-network.service
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# Clean up the initramfs networking on first boot
+# so the real network is being brought up
+# https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/394#issuecomment-599721763
+
+[Unit]
+Description=Tear down initramfs networking
+DefaultDependencies=false
+After=ignition-files.service
+Before=ignition-complete.target
+
+# Make sure ExecStop= runs before we switch root
+Conflicts=initrd-switch-root.target umount.target
+Before=initrd-switch-root.target
+
+# Make sure if ExecStart= fails, the boot fails
+OnFailure=emergency.target
+OnFailureJobMode=isolate
+
+[Service]
+Type=oneshot
+RemainAfterExit=yes
+ExecStop=/usr/sbin/coreos-teardown-initramfs-network
diff --git a/dracut/30ignition/coreos-teardown-initramfs-network.sh b/dracut/30ignition/coreos-teardown-initramfs-network.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..7e3493f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dracut/30ignition/coreos-teardown-initramfs-network.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# -*- mode: shell-script; indent-tabs-mode: nil; sh-basic-offset: 4; -*-
+# ex: ts=8 sw=4 sts=4 et filetype=sh
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+
+# Propagate initramfs networking if desired. The policy here is:
+#
+#    - If a networking configuration was provided before this point
+#      (most likely via Ignition) and exists in the real root then
+#      we do nothing and don't propagate any initramfs networking.
+#    - If a user did not provide any networking configuration
+#      then we'll propagate the initramfs networking configuration
+#      into the real root.
+#
+# See https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/394#issuecomment-599721173
+propagate_initramfs_networking() {
+    if [ -n "$(ls -A /sysroot/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/)" ]; then
+        echo "info: networking config is defined in the real root"
+        echo "info: will not attempt to propagate initramfs networking"
+    else
+        echo "info: no networking config is defined in the real root"
+        if [ -n "$(ls -A /run/NetworkManager/system-connections/)" ]; then
+            echo "info: propagating initramfs networking config to the real root"
+            cp /run/NetworkManager/system-connections/* /sysroot/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/
+        else
+            echo "info: no initramfs networking information to propagate"
+        fi
+    fi
+}
+
+down_interface() {
+    echo "info: taking down network device: $1"
+    # On recommendation from the NM team let's try to delete the device
+    # first and if that doesn't work then set it to down and flush any
+    # associated addresses. Deleting virtual devices (bonds, teams, bridges,
+    # ip-tunnels, etc) will clean up any associated kernel resources. A real
+    # device can't be deleted so that will fail and we'll fallback to setting
+    # it down and flushing addresses.
+    if ! ip link delete $1; then
+        ip link set $1 down
+        ip addr flush dev $1
+    fi
+}
+
+# Iterate through the interfaces in the machine and take them down.
+# Note that in the futre we would like to possibly use `nmcli` networking off`
+# for this. See the following two comments for details:
+# https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/394#issuecomment-599721763
+# https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/394#issuecomment-599746049
+down_interfaces() {
+    if ! [ -z "$(ls /sys/class/net)" ]; then
+        for f in /sys/class/net/*; do
+            interface=$(basename "$f")
+            # The `bonding_masters` entry is not a true interface and thus
+            # cannot be taken down.
+            if [ "$interface" == "bonding_masters" ]; then continue; fi
+            down_interface $interface
+        done
+    fi
+}
+
+main() {
+    # Take down all interfaces set up in the initramfs
+    down_interfaces
+
+    # Clean up all routing
+    echo "info: flushing all routing"
+    ip route flush table main
+    ip route flush cache
+
+    # Propagate initramfs networking if needed
+    propagate_initramfs_networking
+
+    # Now that the configuration has been propagated (or not)
+    # clean it up so that no information from outside of the
+    # real root is passed on to NetworkManager in the real root
+    rm -rf /run/NetworkManager/
+}
+
+main
diff --git a/dracut/30ignition/module-setup.sh b/dracut/30ignition/module-setup.sh
index f901705..7c24211 100755
--- a/dracut/30ignition/module-setup.sh
+++ b/dracut/30ignition/module-setup.sh
@@ -61,6 +61,12 @@ install() {
             "$systemdsystemunitdir/ignition-$x.target"
     done
 
+    # For consistency tear down the network between the initramfs and
+    # real root. See https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/394#issuecomment-599721763
+    inst_script "$moddir/coreos-teardown-initramfs-network.sh" \
+        "/usr/sbin/coreos-teardown-initramfs-network"
+    install_ignition_unit coreos-teardown-initramfs-network.service
+
     install_ignition_unit ignition-setup-base.service
     install_ignition_unit ignition-setup-user.service
     install_ignition_unit ignition-fetch.service