diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 8fdfa97f30..fac09aa98f 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -2283,3 +2283,4 @@ libdoublefann.so.2 fann-2.2.0_1
 libxerces-c-3.1.so libxerces-c-3.1.2_1
 libunibreak.so.1 libunibreak-1.0_1
 libgconfmm-2.6.so.1 gconfmm-2.28.3_1
+libiperf.so.0 iperf3-3.1.1_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/iperf3-devel b/srcpkgs/iperf3-devel
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..15041b1282
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/iperf3-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+iperf3
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/iperf3/template b/srcpkgs/iperf3/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..75823b4df3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/iperf3/template
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+# Template file for 'iperf3'
+pkgname=iperf3
+version=3.1.1
+revision=1
+wrksrc="iperf-${version}"
+build_style=gnu-configure
+CFLAGS="-D_GNU_SOURCE"
+make_build_args="iperf3_profile_LDFLAGS= iperf3_profile_CFLAGS="
+short_desc="Active measurements of the maximum achievable bandwidth on IP networks"
+maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
+license="BSD"
+homepage="http://software.es.net/iperf/"
+distfiles="http://downloads.es.net/pub/iperf/iperf-3.1.1.tar.gz"
+checksum=62f7c64eafe19046ba974b3ef2d962a5597194d6fbbddde328a15a5e74110564
+
+post_extract() {
+	sed -i '1i#include <stdint.h>' src/timer.h src/cjson.h
+}
+
+post_install() {
+	vlicense LICENSE
+}
+
+iperf3-devel_package() {
+        depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+        short_desc+=" -- development files"
+        pkg_install() {
+                vmove usr/include
+                vmove "usr/lib/*.a"
+                vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+                vmove usr/share/man/man3
+        }
+}