diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/netselect/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/netselect/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2c2e9469291
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/netselect/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "netselect-0.3";
+  
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://alumnit.ca/~apenwarr/netselect/netselect-0.3.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "0y69z59vylj9x9nk5jqn6ihx7dkzg09gpv2w1q1rs8fmi4jr90gy";
+  };
+
+  preBuild = "
+    makeFlagsArray=(PREFIX=$out)
+    substituteInPlace Makefile --replace '-o root' '' --replace '-g root' ''
+  ";
+  
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://alumnit.ca/~apenwarr/netselect/;
+    description = "An ultrafast intelligent parallelizing binary-search implementation of \"ping\"";
+    license = "BSD";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index f299868d95f..208c7f90677 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -501,6 +501,10 @@ rec {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv;
   };
 
+  netselect = import ../tools/networking/netselect {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv;
+  };
+
   nmap = import ../tools/security/nmap {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv libpcap pkgconfig;
 	inherit (xlibs) libX11;