diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index fc029c37..23deccd1 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ byobu (5.127) unreleased; urgency=medium
     - deprecate unmaintained ec2/rcs pricing functionality
     - this never really worked well, and these prices are constantly changing
     - clear out stale status cache
+  * debian/control, usr/lib/byobu/ip_address, usr/lib/byobu/network,
+    usr/share/man/man1/wifi-status.1: LP: #1748956
+    - switch entirely to iproute2, away from net-tools and ifconfig
+    - only remaining ifconfig is fall-back logic, in case /sbin/ip is
+      not found
 
  -- Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com>  Sun, 27 May 2018 18:07:11 -0500
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 90aa3f3b..d73e5f2e 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Depends:
  ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${python3:Depends},
  debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0,
  gettext-base,
- net-tools,
+ iproute2,
  python3,
  python3-newt,
  tmux (>= 1.5),
diff --git a/usr/lib/byobu/ip_address b/usr/lib/byobu/ip_address
index 70170a09..76530d5d 100755
--- a/usr/lib/byobu/ip_address
+++ b/usr/lib/byobu/ip_address
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 #    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 __ip_address_detail() {
-	[ -x /sbin/ifconfig ] && /sbin/ifconfig
 	if [ -x /sbin/ip ]; then
 		/sbin/ip -4 addr list
 		/sbin/ip -6 addr list
diff --git a/usr/lib/byobu/network b/usr/lib/byobu/network
index 58f1fc93..833b763c 100755
--- a/usr/lib/byobu/network
+++ b/usr/lib/byobu/network
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 __network_detail() {
 	get_network_interface; local interface="$_RET"
-	LC_ALL=C /sbin/ifconfig "$interface" | $BYOBU_SED 's/\s*$//'
+	LC_ALL=C /sbin/ip addr show "$interface" | $BYOBU_SED 's/\s*$//'
 }
 
 __network() {
diff --git a/usr/share/man/man1/wifi-status.1 b/usr/share/man/man1/wifi-status.1
index b52688c2..06a77618 100644
--- a/usr/share/man/man1/wifi-status.1
+++ b/usr/share/man/man1/wifi-status.1
@@ -10,31 +10,8 @@ wifi-status \- monitor the wireless interface
 
 This is often useful when trying to associate with an access point.
 
-.SH EXAMPLE
- $ wifi-status
-
-Every 1.0s: iwconfig wlan0; ifconfig wlan0
-
-wlan0     IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:"default"
-          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 00:11:22:33:44:55
-          Bit Rate=81 Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm
-          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
-          Power Management:on
-          Link Quality=70/70  Signal level=-35 dBm
-          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
-          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
-
-wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:22:33:44:55
-          inet addr:10.10.10.103  Bcast:10.9.8.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
-          inet6 addr: aaaa::bbb:cccc:dddd:eeee/64 Scope:Link
-          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
-          RX packets:10582 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
-          TX packets:6383 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
-          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
-          RX bytes:8243607 (8.2 MB)  TX bytes:1077323 (1.0 MB)
-
 .SH SEE ALSO
-\fBiwconfig\fP(8)\fP, \fBifconfig\fP(8)
+\fBiwconfig\fP(8)\fP, \fBip\fP(8)
 
 .SH AUTHOR
 This manpage and the utility was written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation.