diff --git a/files/rpms-suse/general b/files/rpms-suse/general
index 0a4746f185..f1f7e8f173 100644
--- a/files/rpms-suse/general
+++ b/files/rpms-suse/general
@@ -22,3 +22,4 @@ tar
 tcpdump
 unzip
 wget
+net-tools
diff --git a/files/rpms/general b/files/rpms/general
index d4a9fcba55..d7ace9b990 100644
--- a/files/rpms/general
+++ b/files/rpms/general
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ which
 bc
 libyaml-devel
 gettext  # used for compiling message catalogs
+net-tools
 
 # [1] : some of installed tools have unversioned dependencies on this,
 # but others have versioned (<=0.7).  So if a later version (0.7.1)