diff --git a/net/iputils/patches/011-ping6_use_gnu_source.patch b/net/iputils/patches/011-ping6_use_gnu_source.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dc61b8c22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/iputils/patches/011-ping6_use_gnu_source.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- a/ping6.c
++++ b/ping6.c
+@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ char copyright[] =
+  *	More statistics could always be gathered.
+  *	This program has to run SUID to ROOT to access the ICMP socket.
+  */
++
++#define _GNU_SOURCE
+ #include "ping_common.h"
+ 
+ #include <linux/filter.h>