diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/ci.yml b/.gitea/workflows/ci.yml
index 092ce1b..aff5490 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -85,10 +85,10 @@ jobs:
       - name: Generate Prisma client (labd typecheck needs it)
         run: pnpm -C src/labd run db:generate
 
-      - name: Install test validators (ubuntu-autoinstall parses YAML via python, kickstart.test runs ksvalidator)
+      - name: Install test validators (ubuntu-autoinstall parses YAML via python, kickstart.test runs ksvalidator, the bastion smoke start runs `ip route`)
         # pykickstart is not in the runner image's apt sources -- pip it is.
         run: |
-          sudo apt-get update -qq && sudo apt-get install -y -qq python3-yaml python3-pip
+          sudo apt-get update -qq && sudo apt-get install -y -qq python3-yaml python3-pip iproute2
           sudo pip3 install --quiet --break-system-packages pykickstart
 
       - name: Build (needed by completions check)