Originally Posted by Purevoltage
I have to agree, if they are having to clear their arp table multiple times a day they have a major network issue going on. That sounds like a very critical bug or lack of hardware going on for them that needs to be addressed asap. I would suggest leaving that provider then name and shaming them. If they’re telling you nothing can be done about this.
I don’t normally advocate that, but in this case it may be justified.
A single arista 7050qx32s can arp more ips than most networks will ever have, for like $700. ARP, for ipv4, is a cheap problem to solve these days. If you’re having to regularly clear ipv4 arp, it shows either very poor network hardware or an incompetent network administrator.
For IPv6 it can…