diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/arm64/package.accept_keywords b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/arm64/package.accept_keywords
index 5b4a93e4e5..7352eb5d6d 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/arm64/package.accept_keywords
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/profiles/coreos/arm64/package.accept_keywords
@@ -33,9 +33,6 @@ dev-util/checkbashisms *
 =net-libs/libnetfilter_queue-1.0.3 ~arm64
 =net-misc/curl-7.79.1 ~arm64
 
-# needed to force enable iperf for arm64
-=net-misc/iperf-3.1.3 **
-
 =net-misc/socat-1.7.3.2 ~arm64
 =perl-core/File-Path-2.130.0 ~arm64
 =sec-policy/selinux-base-2.20200818-r2 ~arm64