diff --git a/libports/ports/lwip.mk b/libports/ports/lwip.mk
index c8cfa35dd..db789b82d 100644
--- a/libports/ports/lwip.mk
+++ b/libports/ports/lwip.mk
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ $(CONTRIB_DIR)/$(LWIP): $(DOWNLOAD_DIR)/$(LWIP_ZIP)
 	$(VERBOSE)unzip $< -d $(CONTRIB_DIR) && touch $@
 	$(VERBOSE)patch -d $(CONTRIB_DIR) -p0 -i ../src/lib/lwip/libc_select_notify.patch
 	$(VERBOSE)patch -d $(CONTRIB_DIR) -p0 -i ../src/lib/lwip/errno.patch
+	$(VERBOSE)patch -d $(CONTRIB_DIR) -p0 -i ../src/lib/lwip/sol_socket_definition.patch
 
 include/lwip/lwip:
 	$(VERBOSE)mkdir -p $@
diff --git a/libports/src/lib/lwip/sol_socket_definition.patch b/libports/src/lib/lwip/sol_socket_definition.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c8f71606c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libports/src/lib/lwip/sol_socket_definition.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Our FreeBSD libc based libc defines SOL_SOCKET as 0xffff. We change
+lwip's definition from 0xfff to match ours. This prevents us from
+converting the level when we call {g,s}etsockopt.
+
+--- lwip-1.3.2.orig/src/include/lwip/sockets.h
++++ lwip-1.3.2/src/include/lwip/sockets.h
+@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ struct linger {
+ /*
+  * Level number for (get/set)sockopt() to apply to socket itself.
+  */
+-#define  SOL_SOCKET  0xfff    /* options for socket level */
++#define  SOL_SOCKET  0xffff    /* options for socket level */
+ 
+ 
+ #define AF_UNSPEC       0