diff --git a/tools/configure_for_func_testing.sh b/tools/configure_for_func_testing.sh
index 33eccaddbd0..f92bc83213e 100755
--- a/tools/configure_for_func_testing.sh
+++ b/tools/configure_for_func_testing.sh
@@ -218,6 +218,10 @@ function _install_post_devstack {
     _install_databases
     _install_rootwrap_sudoers
 
+    if is_ubuntu; then
+        install_package netcat-openbsd
+    fi
+
     # Installing python-openvswitch from packages is a stop-gap while
     # python-openvswitch remains unavailable from pypi.  This also
     # requires that sitepackages=True be set in tox.ini to allow the