diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 235691dd..644e6d96 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -7,9 +7,6 @@
 [submodule "external/cursive-flexi-logger-view"]
 	path = external/cursive-flexi-logger-view
 	url = ../cursive-flexi-logger-view.git
-[submodule "external/if-addrs"]
-	path = external/if-addrs
-	url = ../if-addrs.git
 [submodule "external/keyring-rs"]
 	path = external/keyring-rs
 	url = ../keyring-rs.git
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 6d6af240..859234a7 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1660,14 +1660,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "unicode-normalization",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "if-addrs"
-version = "0.7.0"
-dependencies = [
- "libc",
- "winapi",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "ifstructs"
 version = "0.1.1"
@@ -3775,7 +3767,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "getrandom 0.2.3",
  "hashbrown",
  "hex",
- "if-addrs",
  "ifstructs",
  "jni",
  "jni-sys",
diff --git a/external/if-addrs b/external/if-addrs
deleted file mode 160000
index 35f8eb39..00000000
--- a/external/if-addrs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 35f8eb3988c2786a4d982936b1b79a1ac9ba7383
diff --git a/veilid-core/Cargo.toml b/veilid-core/Cargo.toml
index d9f260f9..cad8b881 100644
--- a/veilid-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/veilid-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ keyvaluedb-sqlite = { path = "../external/keyvaluedb/keyvaluedb-sqlite" }
 data-encoding = { version = "^2" }
 serde = { version = "^1", features = ["derive" ] }
 serde_cbor = { version = "^0" }
-if-addrs = { path = "../external/if-addrs" }
 async_executors = { version = "^0", features = [ "async_std" ]}
 socket2 = "^0"
 bugsalot = "^0"