diff --git a/package/radvd/0003-Improve-check-of-the-sysctl-function.patch b/package/radvd/0003-Improve-check-of-the-sysctl-function.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3053f7b646
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/radvd/0003-Improve-check-of-the-sysctl-function.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+From 4c86b3cbf52f810615d92835e98d83e9555a4d88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
+Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 12:13:47 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Improve check of the sysctl() function
+
+Since sysctl is a deprecated system call, new architectures such as
+ARC don't implement it. In such cases, uClibc installs the
+<sys/sysctl.h> header, but dos not implement the sysctl()
+function. This has the annoying side effect of breaking the sysctl
+detection of radvd, which is purely based on the header file being
+present.
+
+To fix this, this commit adds a check based on the existence of the
+sysctl() function.
+
+Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
+---
+ configure.ac   | 1 +
+ device-linux.c | 2 +-
+ 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
+index 5dde3b2..5518f71 100644
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADERS( \
+ 	time.h \
+ )
+ AC_HEADER_TIME
++AC_CHECK_FUNCS([sysctl])
+ 
+ dnl Checks for typedefs, structures, and compiler characteristics.
+ AC_MSG_CHECKING(whether struct sockaddr_in6 has sin6_scope_id)
+diff --git a/device-linux.c b/device-linux.c
+index 1ecaa6b..d9b56b8 100644
+--- a/device-linux.c
++++ b/device-linux.c
+@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ int check_ip6_forwarding(void)
+ 		value = -1;
+ 	}
+ 
+-#ifdef HAVE_SYS_SYSCTL_H
++#if defined(HAVE_SYS_SYSCTL_H) && defined(HAVE_SYSCTL)
+ 	int forw_sysctl[] = { SYSCTL_IP6_FORWARDING };
+ 	size_t size = sizeof(value);
+ 	if (!fp && sysctl(forw_sysctl, sizeof(forw_sysctl) / sizeof(forw_sysctl[0]), &value, &size, NULL, 0) < 0) {
+-- 
+2.1.0
+