Solaris DHCP Service Developer's Guide

Data Store Containers

The dhcptab and DHCP network tables are referred to generically as data store containers. By default, Solaris DHCP provides support for the container formats shown in the following table.

Data Service Supported 

Public Module 

File-system-based, ASCII format 

ds_SUNWfiles.so

NIS+ service 

ds_SUNWnisplus.so

File-system-based, binary format 

ds_SUNWbinfiles.so