diff --git a/components/eppp_link/examples/host/CMakeLists.txt b/components/eppp_link/examples/host/CMakeLists.txt
index 3405abc52..ba8427665 100644
--- a/components/eppp_link/examples/host/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/components/eppp_link/examples/host/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # The following four lines of boilerplate have to be in your project's CMakeLists
 # in this exact order for cmake to work correctly
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16)
-set(EXTRA_COMPONENT_DIRS $ENV{IDF_PATH}/examples/common_components/iperf)
 
 
 include($ENV{IDF_PATH}/tools/cmake/project.cmake)
diff --git a/components/eppp_link/examples/host/main/idf_component.yml b/components/eppp_link/examples/host/main/idf_component.yml
index 675c13599..eeaef0415 100644
--- a/components/eppp_link/examples/host/main/idf_component.yml
+++ b/components/eppp_link/examples/host/main/idf_component.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 dependencies:
+  espressif/iperf-cmd: "^0.1.1"
   espressif/eppp_link:
     version: "*"
     override_path: "../../.."