diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-networking.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-networking.bb
index 8931f412d1..e84086e131 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-networking.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-networking.bb
@@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-networking-support = "\
     libtevent \
     linux-atm \
     lksctp-tools \
+    mctp \
     memcached \
     ifenslave \
     netcat \
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/mctp/mctp_git.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/mctp/mctp_git.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cab5d6c132
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/mctp/mctp_git.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+SUMMARY = "Management Component Control Protocol utilities"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.github.com/CodeConstruct/mctp"
+SECTION = "net"
+LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=4cc91856b08b094b4f406a29dc61db21"
+
+SRCREV = "a8658290b7914f67146a982671b09f2270ba1654"
+
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/CodeConstruct/mctp;branch=main"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+inherit meson pkgconfig systemd
+
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= " \
+    ${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', d)} \
+"
+
+# mctpd will only be built if pkg-config detects libsystemd; in which case
+# we'll want to declare the dep and install the service.
+PACKAGECONFIG[systemd] = ",,systemd,libsystemd"
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "mctpd.service"
+
+do_install:append () {
+    if ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'systemd', 'true', 'false', d)}; then
+        install -d ${D}${systemd_system_unitdir}
+        install -m 0644 ${S}/conf/mctpd.service \
+                ${D}${systemd_system_unitdir}/mctpd.service
+    fi
+}