diff --git a/.changeset/brown-pens-complain.md b/.changeset/brown-pens-complain.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..72eb43953f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/brown-pens-complain.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@pnpm/fetch": major
+---
+
+Do not use fetch does not support unix requests.
diff --git a/packages/beta/pnpm b/packages/beta/pnpm
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
diff --git a/packages/fetch/package.json b/packages/fetch/package.json
index 7d6fc3ba9b..e92989485d 100644
--- a/packages/fetch/package.json
+++ b/packages/fetch/package.json
@@ -36,8 +36,7 @@
     "@pnpm/fetching-types": "workspace:2.1.0",
     "@pnpm/npm-registry-agent": "workspace:4.0.0",
     "@zkochan/retry": "^0.2.0",
-    "node-fetch": "^2.6.1",
-    "node-fetch-unix": "2.3.0"
+    "node-fetch": "^2.6.1"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@pnpm/logger": "^4.0.0",
diff --git a/packages/fetch/src/fetch.ts b/packages/fetch/src/fetch.ts
index a8391b70f5..a9b67daf47 100644
--- a/packages/fetch/src/fetch.ts
+++ b/packages/fetch/src/fetch.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import { requestRetryLogger } from '@pnpm/core-loggers'
 import { operation, RetryTimeoutOptions } from '@zkochan/retry'
-import { Request, RequestInit as NodeRequestInit, Response } from 'node-fetch'
-import fetch from 'node-fetch-unix'
+import fetch, { Request, RequestInit as NodeRequestInit, Response } from 'node-fetch'
 
 // retry settings
 const MIN_TIMEOUT = 10
diff --git a/packages/plugin-commands-server/src/server.ts b/packages/plugin-commands-server/src/server.ts
index 59cdb0ed6c..c5d7d6c000 100644
--- a/packages/plugin-commands-server/src/server.ts
+++ b/packages/plugin-commands-server/src/server.ts
@@ -104,6 +104,8 @@ export function handler (
   },
   params: string[]
 ) {
+  // We can only support TCP at the moment because node-fetch does not support IPC
+  opts.protocol = 'tcp'
   switch (params[0]) {
   case 'start':
     return start(opts)
diff --git a/packages/pnpm/test/server.ts b/packages/pnpm/test/server.ts
index 3b507840fc..5ad7b2c0c3 100644
--- a/packages/pnpm/test/server.ts
+++ b/packages/pnpm/test/server.ts
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ skipOnWindows('pnpm server uses TCP when port specified', async () => {
   expect(await pathExists(serverJsonPath)).toBeFalsy()
 })
 
-test('pnpm server fails when trying to set --port for IPC protocol', async () => {
+test.skip('pnpm server fails when trying to set --port for IPC protocol', async () => {
   prepare()
 
   expect(execPnpmSync(['server', 'start', '--protocol', 'ipc', '--port', '7856']).status).toBe(1)
diff --git a/pnpm-lock.yaml b/pnpm-lock.yaml
index e2dfe8a913..9b809f09a3 100644
--- a/pnpm-lock.yaml
+++ b/pnpm-lock.yaml
@@ -503,14 +503,12 @@ importers:
       cpy-cli: ^3.1.1
       nock: 12.0.3
       node-fetch: ^2.6.1
-      node-fetch-unix: 2.3.0
     dependencies:
       '@pnpm/core-loggers': link:../core-loggers
       '@pnpm/fetching-types': link:../fetching-types
       '@pnpm/npm-registry-agent': link:../npm-registry-agent
       '@zkochan/retry': 0.2.0
       node-fetch: 2.6.1
-      node-fetch-unix: 2.3.0
     devDependencies:
       '@pnpm/fetch': 'link:'
       '@pnpm/logger': 4.0.0
@@ -10922,11 +10920,6 @@ packages:
       semver: 5.7.1
     dev: true
 
-  /node-fetch-unix/2.3.0:
-    resolution: {integrity: sha512-ngVgjZl1n1dZRR8BIX/UKU3Q0cfkQ4byUVcV132xW/+zPF79sVo2td2576mzIGJibi7E0Azcx2gpy66BoV2hrg==}
-    engines: {node: 4.x || >=6.0.0}
-    dev: false
-
   /node-fetch/2.6.1:
     resolution: {integrity: sha512-V4aYg89jEoVRxRb2fJdAg8FHvI7cEyYdVAh94HH0UIK8oJxUfkjlDQN9RbMx+bEjP7+ggMiFRprSti032Oipxw==}
     engines: {node: 4.x || >=6.0.0}