Handling large amounts of data

[Silimite <silimite@gmail.com>]

I have written an iptables module called "multirange" that works like
a combination of iprange and multiport.  That is, you can specify
multiple ranges to be matched by one rule.

I had to do this because I am loading some 100000 entries into this
rule and I needed something efficient at handling this many ranges.

My question is, what is the best way to communicate all these ranges
from user-space into the kernel module?   I am currently loading them
via procfs.  Is this an acceptable method or should I be looking at
something else?  It certainly works great but I would like it to be as
"proper" as possible.

Thanks!

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