diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/network/f5/bigip_pool.py b/lib/ansible/modules/network/f5/bigip_pool.py
index 60f74bd541..04e8c7dfc1 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/network/f5/bigip_pool.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/network/f5/bigip_pool.py
@@ -296,7 +296,12 @@ from ansible.module_utils.f5_utils import HAS_F5SDK
 from ansible.module_utils.f5_utils import F5ModuleError
 from ansible.module_utils.six import iteritems
 from collections import defaultdict
-from netaddr import IPAddress, AddrFormatError
+
+try:
+    from netaddr import IPAddress, AddrFormatError
+    HAS_NETADDR = True
+except ImportError:
+    HAS_NETADDR = False
 
 try:
     from ansible.module_utils.f5_utils import iControlUnexpectedHTTPError
@@ -904,6 +909,9 @@ def main():
     if not HAS_F5SDK:
         raise F5ModuleError("The python f5-sdk module is required")
 
+    if not HAS_NETADDR:
+        raise F5ModuleError("The python netaddr module is required")
+
     spec = ArgumentSpec()
 
     client = AnsibleF5Client(
diff --git a/test/sanity/import/skip.txt b/test/sanity/import/skip.txt
index 3fd09581b2..9610985e03 100644
--- a/test/sanity/import/skip.txt
+++ b/test/sanity/import/skip.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ lib/ansible/modules/cloud/webfaction/webfaction_mailbox.py
 lib/ansible/modules/cloud/webfaction/webfaction_site.py
 lib/ansible/modules/clustering/consul_acl.py
 lib/ansible/modules/network/cloudengine/ce_file_copy.py
-lib/ansible/modules/network/f5/bigip_pool.py
 lib/ansible/modules/network/f5/bigip_provision.py
 lib/ansible/modules/network/f5/bigip_qkview.py
 lib/ansible/modules/network/f5/bigip_snmp.py