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To run a DHCP Server or a Gateway on a VM on ESXi, you will need VLAN support.

In order to create VLAN interfaces on a VM and listen to them, we need to attach its the VMs virtual NIC to a special Virtual Machine Port Group with VLAN 4095, which represents all VLANs.

Before you begin, remember that you will need to configure the VM. On Linux an 802.1Q VLAN trunking driver is often loaded by default. Remember to select an E1000 Ethernet driver. 

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