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diff --git a/scripts/automation/trex_control_plane/unit_tests/outer_packages.py b/scripts/automation/trex_control_plane/unit_tests/outer_packages.py
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+import sys
+import os
+import platform
+
+EXT_PATH = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), os.pardir, os.pardir, os.pardir, 'external_libs'))
+if not os.path.exists(EXT_PATH):
+    raise Exception('Wrong path to external libs: %s' % EXT_PATH)
+
+CLIENT_UTILS_MODULES = [
+                         {'name': 'scapy-2.3.1', 'py-dep': True},
+                         {'name': 'texttable-0.8.4'},
+                        ]
+
+
+def generate_module_path (module, is_python3, is_64bit, is_ucs2):
+    platform_path = [module['name']]
+
+    if module.get('py-dep'):
+        platform_path.append('python3' if is_python3 else 'python2')
+
+    if module.get('arch-dep'):
+        platform_path.append('ucs2' if is_ucs2 else 'ucs4')
+        platform_path.append('64bit' if is_64bit else '32bit')
+
+    return os.path.normcase(os.path.join(EXT_PATH, *platform_path))
+
+
+def import_module_list(modules_list):
+
+    # platform data
+    is_64bit   = platform.architecture()[0] == '64bit'
+    is_python3 = (sys.version_info >= (3, 0))
+    is_ucs2    = (sys.maxunicode == 65535)
+
+    # regular modules
+    for p in modules_list:
+        full_path = generate_module_path(p, is_python3, is_64bit, is_ucs2)
+
+        if not os.path.exists(full_path):
+            print("Unable to find required module library: '{0}'".format(p['name']))
+            print("Please provide the correct path using TREX_STL_EXT_PATH variable")
+            print("current path used: '{0}'".format(full_path))
+            exit(1)
+        if full_path not in sys.path:
+            sys.path.insert(1, full_path)
+
+
+import_module_list(CLIENT_UTILS_MODULES)