diff --git a/package/base/net-tools/net-tools.conf b/package/base/net-tools/net-tools.conf
index 528325d30..2009d804e 100644
--- a/package/base/net-tools/net-tools.conf
+++ b/package/base/net-tools/net-tools.conf
@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ if [ $target == "dietlibc" ]; then
 else
 	premake="cp $confdir/config.h $confdir/config.status ."
 fi
+
 makeopt="CC='$CC' LD='$CC' COPTS='-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer'"
 makeinstopt="BASEDIR=$root install"
 
+# add the wake-on-lan patch 
+p="`echo $desc_D  | sed 's/.* \(.*\.patch.*\) .*/\1/'`"
+[ "$p" ] && var_append patchfiles " " "$archdir/$p"
+
diff --git a/package/base/net-tools/net-tools.desc b/package/base/net-tools/net-tools.desc
index ab574653d..c9a0cda83 100644
--- a/package/base/net-tools/net-tools.desc
+++ b/package/base/net-tools/net-tools.desc
@@ -44,4 +44,4 @@
 [P] X -1---5---9 735.000
 
 [D] 1395528642 net-tools-1.60.tar.bz2 http://www.tazenda.demon.co.uk/phil/net-tools/
-
+[D] 3869631410 net-tools-1.60-ether-wake-1.patch http://linuxfromscratch.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/net-tools/