diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 79437f3d4..eae2f4c7a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ oslo.serialization>=1.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.service>=1.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.utils>=3.20.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.privsep!=1.17.0,>=1.9.0 # Apache-2.0
-pyroute2>=0.4.15 # Apache-2.0 (+ dual licensed GPL2)
+pyroute2>=0.4.17 # Apache-2.0 (+ dual licensed GPL2)
 # This project does depend on neutron as a library, but the
 # openstack tooling does not play nicely with projects that
 # are not publicly available in pypi.