Direct routing is Arista’s name for deploying “virtual gateways” in an EVPN fabric. It lets multiple devices all act as the default router for a network. It’s sort of like you get with VRRP, but it’s active/active(/active/active…) instead of active/standby like with VRRP. You configure your devices to share a virtual router MAC address and then add a bit of coordination magic so that ARP and friends don’t go wild, and then you can make every L3 switch that’s part of a specific...
