ARP tables in FreeBSD (vs Linux)

[Nikos Vassiliadis]

On 5/23/2011 10:46 PM, Rogelio wrote:
> I found that a certain Linux gateway was having a difficult time with
> thousands of ARP entries (about 13K concurrent ARP entries in 10 min
> from ISP subscribers), so I put it behind a Cisco 7201 router and
> added an IP helper to the interface.  Now it seems to be working much
> much better.

Was the rate of ARPs the problem?
Or the size of the ARP table?

Nikos