diff --git a/net/Makefile b/net/Makefile
index 178463137a75..ce41edf05d1d 100644
--- a/net/Makefile
+++ b/net/Makefile
@@ -725,6 +725,7 @@
     SUBDIR += p5-POE-Component-Server-Twirc
     SUBDIR += p5-POE-Component-Spread
     SUBDIR += p5-POEx-Role-TCPServer
+    SUBDIR += p5-POSIX-Socket
     SUBDIR += p5-Parallel-Pvm
     SUBDIR += p5-Phone-Info
     SUBDIR += p5-PlRPC
diff --git a/net/p5-POSIX-Socket/Makefile b/net/p5-POSIX-Socket/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b9b7e8dcef04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/p5-POSIX-Socket/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# $FreeBSD$
+
+PORTNAME=	POSIX-Socket
+PORTVERSION=	0.09
+CATEGORIES=	net perl5
+MASTER_SITES=	CPAN
+PKGNAMEPREFIX=	p5-
+
+MAINTAINER=	kuriyama@FreeBSD.org
+COMMENT=	Perl extension for POSIX socket low-level interface
+
+USES=	perl5
+USE_PERL5=	configure
+
+MAN3=	POSIX::Socket.3
+
+.include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/net/p5-POSIX-Socket/distinfo b/net/p5-POSIX-Socket/distinfo
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1442882fd20a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/p5-POSIX-Socket/distinfo
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+SHA256 (POSIX-Socket-0.09.tar.gz) = 077240158fc77654c5a76429a0edc943d08acfc9e87c87dad14b333a1fb713a7
+SIZE (POSIX-Socket-0.09.tar.gz) = 3608
diff --git a/net/p5-POSIX-Socket/pkg-descr b/net/p5-POSIX-Socket/pkg-descr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..be81cf89a8b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/p5-POSIX-Socket/pkg-descr
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+The primary purpose of this is to use file descriptors instead of file
+handles for socket operations. File descriptors can be shared between
+threads and not need dup file handles for each threads.
+
+WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/POSIX-Socket/
diff --git a/net/p5-POSIX-Socket/pkg-plist b/net/p5-POSIX-Socket/pkg-plist
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6ad8d5d4e655
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net/p5-POSIX-Socket/pkg-plist
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+%%SITE_PERL%%/%%PERL_ARCH%%/auto/POSIX/Socket/.packlist
+%%SITE_PERL%%/%%PERL_ARCH%%/POSIX/Socket.pm
+%%SITE_PERL%%/%%PERL_ARCH%%/auto/POSIX/Socket/Socket.bs
+%%SITE_PERL%%/%%PERL_ARCH%%/auto/POSIX/Socket/Socket.so
+@dirrmtry %%SITE_PERL%%/%%PERL_ARCH%%/POSIX
+@dirrm %%SITE_PERL%%/%%PERL_ARCH%%/auto/POSIX/Socket
+@dirrmtry %%SITE_PERL%%/%%PERL_ARCH%%/auto/POSIX