Re: Thousands of hosts on a gigabit LAN, maybe not

["John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>]

> > 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