diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 244520f6..adb86956 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_INFIX_PATH/package/finit/Config.in"
+source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_INFIX_PATH/package/ifupdown2/Config.in"
 source "$BR2_EXTERNAL_INFIX_PATH/package/skeleton-init-finit/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/ifupdown2/Config.in b/package/ifupdown2/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ab59b23c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/ifupdown2/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_IFUPDOWN2
+	bool "ifupdown2"
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_IPROUTE2
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3 # need, e.g., xml
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_MAKO # runtime
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_SIX # runtime
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON_SETUPTOOLS # runtime
+	help
+	  Second generation high level tools to configure network interfaces.
+
+	  https://github.com/CumulusNetworks/ifupdown2/
diff --git a/package/ifupdown2/ifupdown2.mk b/package/ifupdown2/ifupdown2.mk
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9fd67dbe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/ifupdown2/ifupdown2.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# ifupdown2
+#
+################################################################################
+
+IFUPDOWN2_VERSION = a97d3e0cf96ab44e1e37a5940c83ea390f6656c7
+IFUPDOWN2_SITE = $(call github,kernelkit,ifupdown2,$(IFUPDOWN2_VERSION))
+IFUPDOWN2_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+
+IFUPDOWN2_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
+IFUPDOWN2_DEPENDENCIES = iproute2 python3 python-mako python-six python-setuptools
+IFUPDOWN2_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
+
+$(eval $(python-package))