--- title: EVPN-VXLAN Direct Routing with Arista | daily.dev description: Direct routing enables multiple switches in an EVPN fabric to act as active gateways for the same network, similar to VRRP but with active/active operation... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/evpn-vxlan-direct-routing-with-arista-pvolyiopu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: EVPN-VXLAN Direct Routing with Arista | daily.dev og:description: Direct routing enables multiple switches in an EVPN fabric to act as active gateways for the same network, similar to VRRP but with active/active operation... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/evpn-vxlan-direct-routing-with-arista-pvolyiopu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/PVOlYIopu.png og:image:alt: EVPN-VXLAN Direct Routing with Arista og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # EVPN-VXLAN Direct Routing with Arista **[scottstuff.net](https://daily.dev/sources/scottstuff)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Direct routing enables multiple switches in an EVPN fabric to act as active gateways for the same network, similar to VRRP but with active/active operation instead of active/standby. The configuration requires setting up virtual router MAC addresses, virtual IP addresses, and crucially, allocating separate VTEP IPs for different switch clusters. Each MLAG pair needs a shared VTEP IP, standalone switches need their own VTEP IP, and the entire cluster requires an additional shared VTEP IP configured as secondary on all switches' loopback interfaces. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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