- Written by Zhenzhong Tang
- Posted on May 8, 2026
- Updated on May 8, 2026
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The VxLAN MAC drop feature directs all VxLAN MAC addresses to a drop destination, causing the switch to drop all egress VxLAN bridging traffic, effectively disabling VxLAN bridging on the switch. VxLAN routing is unaffected. In some VxLAN routing-only deployments, bridging tunnels are unused yet still consume hardware resources. This feature frees the tunnel hardware resources used for VxLAN bridging, which can then be allocated for VxLAN routing. This in turn allows the switch to support more remote VTEPs. Typical use cases include centralized routing gateways or spines in EVPN-VxLAN fabrics, and VESPA (Virtual Ethernet Segment with Proxy ARP) gateways in wireless campus deployments.