diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/network-tools-depends/iperf/package.mk b/packages/addons/addon-depends/network-tools-depends/iperf/package.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bee0a21234
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/network-tools-depends/iperf/package.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+################################################################################
+#      This file is part of LibreELEC - http://www.libreelec.tv
+#      Copyright (C) 2016 Team LibreELEC
+#
+#  LibreELEC is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#  the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
+#  (at your option) any later version.
+#
+#  LibreELEC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+#  GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#  along with LibreELEC.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+################################################################################
+
+PKG_NAME="iperf"
+PKG_VERSION="3.1.2"
+PKG_REV="2"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="OSS"
+PKG_SITE="https://iperf.fr/"
+PKG_URL="https://iperf.fr/download/source/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION-source.tar.gz"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="network/testing"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="iperf: A modern alternative for measuring maximum TCP and UDP bandwidth performance"
+PKG_LONGDESC="Iperf was developed by NLANR/DAST as a modern alternative for measuring maximum TCP and UDP bandwidth performance. Iperf allows the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, datagram loss."
+PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"
+
+PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="--enable-static --disable-shared"
+
+makeinstall_target() {
+  : # nop
+}
diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/network-tools-depends/iperf/patches/iperf-0001_fix-build-with-gcc5.patch b/packages/addons/addon-depends/network-tools-depends/iperf/patches/iperf-0001_fix-build-with-gcc5.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..85c7f78cc0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/addons/addon-depends/network-tools-depends/iperf/patches/iperf-0001_fix-build-with-gcc5.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+diff -Naur a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
+--- a/Makefile.am	2015-10-16 19:01:09.000000000 +0200
++++ b/Makefile.am	2016-01-06 21:22:34.118008794 +0100
+@@ -1 +1,8 @@
++README: README.md
++        fgrep -v "[Build Status]" $< \
++                | markdown \
++                | html2text -style pretty -nobs \
++                | sed -e 's:&gt;:>:g' \
++                > $@.tmp
++
+ SUBDIRS = src examples
+diff -Naur a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am
+--- a/src/Makefile.am	2015-10-16 19:01:09.000000000 +0200
++++ b/src/Makefile.am	2016-01-06 21:26:12.352336266 +0100
+@@ -49,9 +49,9 @@
+ iperf3_profile_SOURCES  = main.c \
+ 						  $(libiperf_la_SOURCES)
+ 
+-iperf3_profile_CFLAGS   = -pg -g
++iperf3_profile_CFLAGS   = -g
+ iperf3_profile_LDADD    = libiperf.la
+-iperf3_profile_LDFLAGS  = -pg -g
++iperf3_profile_LDFLAGS  = -g
+ 
+ # Specify the sources and various flags for the test cases
+ t_timer_SOURCES         = t_timer.c