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This is a little guide to show you how to setup a small container dedicated to an i2p router such as i2pd. This allows for a central router for all your clients on your LAN for example.


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i2pd Alpine Setup Script

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you for this!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Update 2023-10-26

Script was fixed and now correctly copies the reseed certificates from the repo to the data directory. Running the script on a fresh alpine container now results in a working i2pd router with no config necessary. This fixes the "Firewall Status: Unknown" issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How do I make my client (Firefox) use it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You need to setup the proxy setting in i2p and Firefox. Keep in mind that you can't just browse the web like a normal we browser as you can only visit i2p sites.

In i2p go into settings and allow proxy traffic from lan.

In Firefox go into your proxy settings and point your browser to i2p. I forgot what port but you can look it up online.

Sorry for the vague instructions but I haven't done this in a while.

[–] CAVOK 2 points 1 year ago

Semi-true. There is an outproxy available so you can surf the normal Web, if you want. With a manual setup you might have to configure your machine for it though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I found this but for Windows , I was not able to find it for Linux.

https://geti2p.net/en/download/firefox

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Here is a relevant guide: https://geti2p.net/en/about/browser-config

For the IP address, just put in your container's IP address instead of 127.0.0.1

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about the Router console? Is this something that's only available with i2p, or does it also exist with i2pd?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is i2p-java and i2p+ only. i2pd is only the router which is why it is so small and fast.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, so i2pd is the lightweight version and all the configs happens in the config file available.

Is there a way to test that i2pd is actually working?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Step 5 from the guide shows how to test if i2pd is running on your Alpine container. If you are using i2pd on another machine, similar commands will work as well.

For the Alpine Container:

  • Run ps command to see if the i2pd program is running
  • Run service i2pd status to see that status. Ex. * status: started
  • Find your container’s local IP address with ip -4 a and navigate to the i2pd web console at http://:7070
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks, I've done that and I can access the i2pd webconsole, but it doesn't seem to run correctly. I've had it run for over 20 hours now and it just says Network status: Unknown.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can your container reach the internet? If you shell into your container can you ping anything outside your network?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No issues pinging outside my network.