Topology Press enter or click to view image in full size Mac Advertisement To start with how the MAC address of the Host H1 is advertised and eventually settles in the MAC address table of remote VTEPS, let’s inspect the tables involved in advertising VTEP L1. The Tables involved are : Mac address Table MAC VRF table ( L2 EVPN RIB ) BGP Local RIBs The Data is pushed from the previous table to the next table in sequence as listed above : MAC Table --------> MAC VRF Table --------> BGP Local RIBs MAC VRF table is created per VNI. So, we have two MAC VRF tables — one for VNI5010 and one for VNI5020. Since VLAN 10 is associated with VNI 5010, all MAC addresses present in VLAN 10 are pushed into MAC VRF table for VNI5010. This table contains  MAC-only  routes as exported from mac-address table. Each MAC VRF table is also configured with RD and RT. BGP process is listening on these MAC VRF tables to export MAC routes as  EVPN TYPE 2 Routes  along with RDs and ...