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+# Copyright 2016 VMware, Inc.
+#
+# All Rights Reserved
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+# not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+# a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+# WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+# License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+
+# This file is sourced by the NSX-v3 CI to run selective set of tests
+# based on the features that are ready to be tested.
+
+# Begin list of exclusions.
+r="^(?!.*"
+
+r="$r(?:tempest\.api\.network\.test_ports\.PortsTestJSON\.test_create_update_port_with_second_ip.*)"
+
+# End list of exclusions.
+r="$r)"
+
+# only run tempest.api.network tests
+r="$r(tempest\.api\.network).*$"
+
+export DEVSTACK_GATE_TEMPEST_REGEX="$r"