diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 84f8ab4..5a62e3b 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 patroni (1.6.0-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
-  * 
+  [ Michael Banck ]
+  * debian/control: Recommend iproute2.
 
  -- Debian PostgreSQL Maintainers <team+postgresql@tracker.debian.org>  Wed, 21 Aug 2019 13:18:29 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index d8e9ede..bdb3e24 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ Package: patroni
 Architecture: all
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends}, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), python3-psycopg2,
  python3-etcd (>= 0.4.3) | python3-consul (>= 0.7.0) | python3-kazoo | python3-kubernetes
+Recommends: iproute2
 Suggests: postgresql, etcd-server | consul | zookeeperd, haproxy, patroni-doc
 Description: PostgreSQL High Availability with ZooKeeper, etcd, Consul, or Kubernetes
  Patroni is a template for a customized, high-availability PostgreSQL solution