I have set up a lab environment in virtualbox with 1 workstation and several ubuntu servers behind a Smoothwall gateway. Sometimes, I forget to set a DHCP reservation and I will get an address from the dynamic pool. Once I do set the reservation, how can I force either the server or SmoothWall to send the reserved IP address.
I realize that I can manually set the interface of the server to a static IP, but I would like to get the benefit of being able to refer to the server by name and not IP address. Also if I need to change the IP address of the server, I would rather do it through DHCP instead of the configuration files.