# Multi-Pod EVPN Troubleshooting: Fixing Next Hops

DevFeed: [Multi-Pod EVPN Troubleshooting: Fixing Next Hops](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/multi-pod-evpn-troubleshooting-fixing-next-hops-11276.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ipspace.net/2025/11/evpn-multi-pod-tshoot-example/>)

Published: 2025-11-18T06:27:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [ipSpace.net blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ipspace-net-blog.md>)

Topics: [evpn](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/evpn.md>), [BGP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bgp.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>)

Tags: [bgp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bgp.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [evpn](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/evpn.md>), [evpn-designs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/evpn-designs.md>), [netlab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/netlab.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [route](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/route.md>), [troubleshooting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/troubleshooting.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial demonstrates troubleshooting a multi-pod EVPN network by checking BGP route propagation and inclusive multicast routes. It identifies an incorrect EVPN next-hop change across an EBGP session and explains how to trace the responsible configuration.

## Source excerpt

Last month, I wrote about the specifics of troubleshooting multi-pod EVPN designs. Today, I'd like to start a journey through an example in which (channeling my inner CCIE preparation lab instructor) I broke as many things as I could think of. Here's the lab topology we'll use (and as usual, the corresponding netlab topology file and device configurations are on GitHub). Our network has two sites (pods), each with a spine switch, a leaf switch, and a host attached to the leaf switch. The inter-pod link is connected to the spine switches to minimize the number of devices. Read more ...