Hi, On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 13:49:57 +0100 Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> wrote: > You don't need vlan; iproute2's ip can do it: > > ip link add link eth0 name vlan9 type vlan id 9 > or > ip link add link eth0 name eth0.9 type vlan id 9 > > I know that. vlan package is needed for the ifupdown hooks to parse vlan stanza from /etc/network/interfaces and hence configure vlan id. Or am I missing something? Regards, Dimitri.