>> to have 10,000 entries or more in its ARP table. > >Agreed. :) You don't really want 10,000 entries in a routing FIB >table either, but I was seriously encouraged by the work going >on in linux 4.0 and 4.1 to improve those lookups.
One obvious way to deal with that is to put some manageable number of hosts on a subnet and route traffic between the subnets. I think we can assume they'll all have 10/8 addresses, and I'm not too worried about performance to the outside world, just within the network. R's, John