The problem is that we have a public OpenVPN service. Pay €9.95 and you
get an OpenVPN account at currently half a dozen of servers for a
month. This means there are always and will always be some people who
create a certain amount of abuse or trouble. On the long run, the
external IP every OpenVPN user gets assigned is prohibited from editing
Wikipedia, it might be banned by e-gold and on some popular webforums,
one-click-hosters, etc. Not a pleasant experience for the 97% of our
customers who use our service responsibly and legitimately to regain
their privacy.
So even if I could change the assigned external IP every few months; e.
g. from 216.xx.xx.164 to 216.xx.xx.170, it would help us a lot to combat
this abuse and to provide our paying clients with "fresh" IP addresses
that aren't banned or restricted on some popular Internet sites and
services, yet.
Does anybody know how to change the first IP address assigned to the
public interface in CentOS? So that e.g. OpenVPN in future doesn't give
our OpenVPN clients the external IP 123.xx.xx.164 but rather
123.xx.xx.170?
