The situation is this: I'm trying to setup i2pd on the local machine.

1. In some resources I've seen an advice to set a fixed port for i2pd to ease port forwarding. But at the same time there is a comment in i2pd.conf, which says that the port must be random (by default). So should I set a fixed port? Will this hurt security?
2. I am behind the NAT, I have no public IP address. When I've set up port forwarding in the system and in my router, I expected that there is a transit traffic, though the Network status is "Firewalled - Symmetric NAT". What does this mean?

I was trying to install the newest update. I had problems getting it so I tried starting from scratch. I Uninstalled everything and tried reinstalling I2P easy installer. Now it keeps operating in Microsoft edge. My router homepage doesnt show up, just text that mentions something about a proxy. How do i get everything back to firefox?

I2p can work. It can connect to the I2p network. I update the subscriptions so I can open lost of I2p website . I change the outproxy so I can open the normal webside like google or others. But I find participating and share ratio are all 0. How can I improve it？ Thanks.

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ok, so It happen that I try to play some video using tube.i2p or invidous.qwik.i2p,
but It pretty much never work for me, I don't know if the issue is on my side or not,
but thince these services are still runing, I assum they somhow work for most peoples.

The issue I have :
on tube.i2p almost every time page load fine but "No video with supported format and MIME type found." and sometime page don't load "The page isn't redirecting properly Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete. this problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies",
and it do this on random video, sometime i can play them sometime it's the first or the other error.

on invidious.qwik.i2p the error is just "The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported." it randomly happen to but even without reloading the tab.

I have JS enabled, I use the default "standard" mode on the security tab of firefox, disabled query ocsp, disabled DoH, disabled all a can in "Permission" (like "Block new requests asking to access your location" is on, and all other with it), disabled Play DRM-controlled content, and tested pretty much all of this activated and deactivated,

I tested the outproxy (i use purokishi and stormy cloud (in this order)) work fine on youtube but it's not my goal tu use that

Edit : I tested yewtu .be (wich is what I see loading when in tube.i2p) with the outproxy too and it seem to work fine too

Im on windows,
Using I2P 2.4.0 (non eazy install)
Using Firefox for it,
Runing for 40 hours,
Bandwith is pretty much almost all the time above 200KBps in/out,
Share ratio is almost all the time between 50 and 120,
IPv4: OK ; IPv6 : Firewalled,
So disabled inbound IPv6 and using Prefer IPv4 over IPv6,
I use 291/512 RAM for the JVM.

I just want to know if it is normal or not
and if not, help to try to see what can be my issue is welcome
don't bother too much for me since this is not a matter of death or live for me, Im just a little curious
(the post edit is just me reformating the text since when i uploaded reddit messed it up)

I configured the browser firefox and then when I try to go in any .i2p website it treats it like a regular site and automatically puts https before it shows site can't be reached. Even 127.0.0.1 opens with https. And I have configure it port 4444 everything.

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I want all network traffic on my linux laptop to go through I2P and I'm trying to create firewall rules for that. My understanding is that I have to create a rule to allow traffic both ways (in & out) on the port I2P is functioning on (2nd pic), and another rule to deny traffic both ways on all other ports (3rd pic). I've got the port (4444) from the general settings in I2p console, then put those in the port box in the rule allowing I2P. Do I leave the from/to IP boxes blank in both rules? Your help is greatly appreciated.

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I have everything according to the instructions but it's still not working !

Pls help me diagnose it I am using lighting browser and am on Android i started i2p waited for a tunnel to appear changed proxy to i2p still not working

always website unreachible ...

dont know what i am doing wrong :/

I have installed i2p through Ubuntu PPA and ran it for 3 days, but the Networking status still says Testing. I share 100Mbits/s and have opened the port for UDP and TCP in my router. Is this normal or did I do something wrong?

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I believe that software like i2p is going to made illegal and the clearnet infrastructure will be shutdown

what can we do about it?

Error message: "ERR-No Active Peers, Check Network Connection and Firewall"

Good Day to you on r/i2p.

I am unable to download I2P For Windows Easy Bundle from https://geti2p.net/en/download/easyinstall

No download begins. Does anyone know where I can get the Easy Bundle file?

I appreciate any help.

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hello I haven't posted before and hope I understood the rules. I have got i2p set up with some viable proxy, port-forwarding and firewall settings, but need some further advice:-

I have got i2pmail working (on Windows 7 with PaleMoon).

Next I'd like to use it with epyrus (which is very similar to Thunderbird) but I have a question.

The imap settings seem to require "Normal Password" which (I suppose) sends the password to the mailserver as plain text. But I doubt I understood how i2p email differs from regular email. Is this safe or if not is there some way it can be changed to an encrypted password?

For example perhaps this setting makes no difference in i2p contexts (iirc I read somewhere that TLS/SSL doesn't matter) or like it is just a handshake before an actual authentication is done via an i2p tunnel, then plain text password might not be so bad at all.

Also I do understand a client and especially a windows client often defeats the object of any security, but to transport this password as plain text seems like it would be serving it up on a plate - e.g. to packet-sniffing in the local area network.

Can I2p work in a Windows 32 bits system?

1. I have never used I2P before and want to know what is the best anonymous operating system to use I2P on if ones threat model is to be anonymous and not have their identity and activities exposed? Can you use it on Tails?

2. What happens if you use I2P on Windows operating system? Do you need to use its own browser or you can use any browser? Is everything like IP address, fingerprints, identity etc all anonymised? Is all the traffic routed?

3. Are you able to anonymously access clearnet websites without any issues? How about onion websites?

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I am currently failing to install I2p on my Mac running MacOS Ventura.

I followed this tutorial https://geti2p.net/de/download/macos

After installing it and running the Start I2P Router the App tries to launch and vanishes from the dock a few seconds later. Running the app in terminal get this out:

b@MBP-von-B ~ % /Applications/i2p/Start\ I2P\ Router.app/Contents/MacOS/i2prouter ; exit;

Starting I2P Service...

Waiting for I2P Service.....

WARNING: I2P Service may have failed to start.

**Failed to load the wrapper**

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The most likely reason is that a supported version of the java

wrapper is not available in the I2P installation package for your

platform. It may be possible to manually download and install

a compatible wrapper for your system.

See https://geti2p.net/en/misc/manual-wrapper for hints.

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In the meantime, you may start I2P by running the script

/Applications/i2p/runplain.sh

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Saving session...

...copying shared history...

...saving history...truncating history files...

...completed.

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[Prozess beendet]

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I tried installing the wrapper manually but it still won´t work.

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Running the runplain.sh gives out this :

I2P started [92408]

/Applications/i2p/runplain.sh: line 54: %SYSTEM_java_io_tmpdir/router.pid: No such file or directory

b@MBP-von-B ~ %

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I also tried running the Easy Installer but the only difference is that the app tries to start in the dock for a couple of minutes and then vanishes from the dock again.

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Check the tutorial in my blog!

I mean, activating a vpn and opening i2p after

I2P's configuration is stored in C:\ProgramData\I2P and I'd like to move it to somewhere else where I have more control over its privacy. Is there a way to do that?

I am running into a file permission issue with i2p when running in docker (Kubernetes) and writing to a file share. I am seeing what seems to be similar behavior for both i2p configurations and i2psnark files. All files and directories are owned by the i2p user and group (as configured in the docker container - I manually checked). I am trying to write to a files hare with a default mask of 770.

When I exec into the docker container and try to create files and directories it works fine, but when i2psnark tries to create files I get the following error: "Error on torrent Magnet <magnet id> (<directory name>): Could not create file for Magnet <magnet id> (<magnet name>): java.io.IOException: Permission denied"

Is i2p doing something weird with file permissions or groups?

The torrent directory permissions are (as viewed on the host system):

drwxrwx--- 2 1040 65536 0 Feb 15 15:34 i2ptorrents

Inside the container, my uid and gid look right (although granted the container doesn't know the names of the user/group, but that shouldn't be a problem):

/i2p $ whoami
whoami: unknown uid 1040
/i2p $ groups
65536groups: unknown ID 65536

i2p is running as this user in the container as well:

/i2psnark $ ps -fe
PID   USER     TIME  COMMAND
    1 1040      0:00 {startapp.sh} /bin/sh /startapp.sh
    7 1040      0:59 java -cp .:lib/addressbook.jar:lib/commons-el.jar:lib/desktopgui.jar:lib/i2p.jar:lib/i2psnark.jar:lib/i2ptunnel.jar:lib/jasper-runtime.jar:lib/javax.servlet.jar:lib/jbigi.jar:lib/
  279 1040      0:00 /bin/sh
  297 1040      0:00 ps -fe

inside the container I can create files just fine:

/i2psnark $ touch test
/i2psnark $ ls -lah test
-rwxrwx---    1 1040     65536          0 Feb 15 23:45 test

I was running into a similar issue with the .i2p directory and I resolved that by moving it off the file share in the short term, but I want to move it back and I don't have space to put the i2psnark directory on local disk.

I'm trying to torrent on Android as it's the only device I currently have, but running into a problem. I set up a SOCKS Proxy as shown, and connected LibreTorrent to it, but none of my torrents are loading. I've tried making a server tunnel, changing ports, and all sorts of things but none of them are working. Does anyone know a solution?

If I force all internet traffic through I2P (using firewall rules in linux), will it be like using the internet as I normally do, or will some things not work? I'm not doing anything fancy, mostly just using the browser.

I am sorry to say that the best network for anonymity, which is more efficient and secure than the Tor network, most of the sites in it do not work. Either the page does not exist or the server has crashed and the search engines are down. I do not know why Is it because I am searching incorrectly or what? I love i2p because it is the best secure network and has surpassed Tor, so I hope to correct these errors and develop good marketing plans to attract users and increase the number of sites and services on the network. Greetings

Okay so I'm a noob to i2p and it's difficult to find info on it so sorry if this is dumb

So the regular internet and i2p both are packet switched right

Moreover https is encrypted aswell? So apart from the peer 2 peer aspect what makes i2p different?

How easy or hard to install i2p on tails. I know they have problem back in 2014.

Does the I2P client in Ubuntu/Pop OS have a "killswitch" similar to what a vpn has, that will prevent any traffic from escaping the I2P network?

The talk will be held in Brussels/Belgium, at Université libre de Bruxelles, Saturday, 3rd of February 2024, 15:30 CET.

See here (slides are already available on fosdem page, see blog post for the link): https://www.diva.exchange/en/privacy/fosdem-2024-why-it-is-essential-to-take-a-close-look/

This is the first post of my blog in i2p, where I show how anyone can self-host a XMPP server completely federated over i2p and tor, including support to groups and file sharing.

You can access the tutorial here(using i2p, obviously).