Container Name

The container names presented to the administrator through the administrative interface must always be dhcptab and the dotted IP network address for the DHCP network tables, such as 10.0.0.0.

Internally, the data store container names must contain the version number to enable you to produce revisions of your container formats whenever necessary. This naming scheme allows the coexistence of multiple versions of a container, which is a requirement for the architecture's container version upgrade mechanism to work.

The names used for the containers should include a globally recognizable token to ensure that the names are unique.

For example, the NIS+ public module provided with Solaris DHCP would create the dhcptab container internally as SUNWnisplus1_dhcptab. The container for the 172.21.174.0 network table would be SUNWnisplus1_172.21.174.0.

If your company name is Inet DataBase, and your public module is ds_IDBtrees.so.1, you would name your containers IDBtrees1_dhcptab and IDBtrees1_172.21.174.0.