diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyroute2/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyroute2/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7fb7b7f5e685
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyroute2/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchurl}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  name = "pyroute2-0.4.12";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://pypi/p/pyroute2/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0csp6y38pgswhn46rivdgrlqw99dpjzwa0g32h6iiaj12n2f9qlq";
+  };
+
+  # requires root priviledges
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Python Netlink library";
+    homepage = https://github.com/svinota/pyroute2;
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = [maintainers.mic92];
+    platform = platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index e58cc0f63feb..30638781e8b9 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -9207,6 +9207,8 @@ in {
     propagatedBuildInputs = with self; [ pyramid hawkauthlib tokenlib webtest ];
   };
 
+  pyroute2 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pyroute2 { };
+
   pyspf = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "pyspf-${version}";
     version = "2.0.12";
@@ -20064,8 +20066,8 @@ in {
 
     buildInputs = [ pkgs.libev ];
 
-    libEvSharedLibrary = 
-      if !stdenv.isDarwin  
+    libEvSharedLibrary =
+      if !stdenv.isDarwin
       then "${pkgs.libev}/lib/libev.so.4"
       else "${pkgs.libev}/lib/libev.4.dylib";