diff --git a/tests/requirements.txt b/tests/requirements.txt
index 970e3d9d7c..3f3fa4304d 100644
--- a/tests/requirements.txt
+++ b/tests/requirements.txt
@@ -14,3 +14,6 @@ pytidylib==0.3.2
 selenium==3.141.0
 whisper>=0.9.9
 whitenoise==4.1.4
+# the next dep is here because newer versions of ciscoconfparse has broken dependencies
+# this can be removed once we move to napalm 4, which no longer depends on ciscoconfparse
+ciscoconfparse<1.6.51