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ARP Issues in EVPN Centralized Routing Design

BLOG ARTICLE Published on May 4, 2026

Written by ipSpace.net - Ivan Pepelnjak

Source: ipSpace.net - Ivan Pepelnjak 1 min read intermediate

Summary

Adding IRB to a EVPN MAC-VRFs (the fancy way of saying stretched VLANs) seems like a no-brainer: Add IP addresses to VLAN interfaces Optionally add a shared anycast gateway Declare “Mission Accomplished” (and try to ignore the inevitable phone call at 2 AM on a Sunday night) Making that work in a multi-vendor environment is even more fun1, as I sadly discovered when creating the EVPN lab exercises or trying to figure out why some EVPN implementations were failing netlab EVPN int...

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