diff --git a/xCAT-probe/debian/control b/xCAT-probe/debian/control
index 7140f1513..690713a4d 100644
--- a/xCAT-probe/debian/control
+++ b/xCAT-probe/debian/control
@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ Standards-Version: 3.9.4
 
 Package: xcat-probe
 Architecture: all
-Depends: ${perl:Depends}
+Depends: ${perl:Depends}, iproute2 | net-tools
 Recommends: wget, dnsutils, tftp-hpa, tcpdump
 Description: Provides a toolkit to probe possible issues in xCAT
diff --git a/xCAT-probe/xCAT-probe.spec b/xCAT-probe/xCAT-probe.spec
index 108774e7d..53bbb589c 100644
--- a/xCAT-probe/xCAT-probe.spec
+++ b/xCAT-probe/xCAT-probe.spec
@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ Requires: /usr/bin/tftp
 Requires: /usr/bin/wget
 # Tool detect_dhcpd requires tcpdump
 Requires: /usr/sbin/tcpdump
+# TCP listener checks use ss, which is packaged differently on SUSE.
+%if 0%{?suse_version}
+Requires: iproute2
+%else
+Requires: iproute
+%endif
 %endif
 
 %description
diff --git a/xCAT-test/unit/xcat_probe_package_payload.t b/xCAT-test/unit/xcat_probe_package_payload.t
index a4fad8aaf..8ebb934b6 100644
--- a/xCAT-test/unit/xcat_probe_package_payload.t
+++ b/xCAT-test/unit/xcat_probe_package_payload.t
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ my @affected_subcommands = qw(
 );
 
 my $builder = read_file('buildrpms.pl');
+my $rpm_spec = read_file('xCAT-probe/xCAT-probe.spec');
+my $debian_control = read_file('xCAT-probe/debian/control');
 like($builder, qr/sub prepare_xcat_probe_source_tar\b/, 'RPM builder has dedicated xCAT-probe source preparation');
 like(
     $builder,
@@ -45,6 +47,17 @@ ok(
     'xCAT-probe source preparation runs before worker processes fork'
 );
 
+like(
+    $rpm_spec,
+    qr/%if 0%\{\?suse_version\}\s+Requires: iproute2\s+%else\s+Requires: iproute\s+%endif/s,
+    'RPM package requires the distro-specific provider of ss'
+);
+like(
+    $debian_control,
+    qr/^Depends:.*\biproute2\s*\|\s*net-tools\b/m,
+    'Debian package requires ss or the legacy netstat provider'
+);
+
 for my $helper (@helpers) {
     my $source = File::Spec->catfile($repo_root, 'perl-xCAT', 'xCAT', $helper);
     ok(-f $source, "$helper source exists");