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I2P Community Edition

This isn't the official I2P channel, if you want go there then you can find it in the links below.

Rules

Be nice and friendly
Don't spam
No darknet markets
No malicious content
No closed source software
No excessive self promotion
No violence or hate speech
I2P related posts only
Please use English
No illegal file sharing
Lemmy rules also apply here
No crypto-currency

"Don't be a dick" - Wil Wheaton

General

Main project site (clearnet)
I2P Forum (clearnet) Official I2P community and development forum
zzz zzz's personal website, old developers forum
planet.i2p RSS aggregator

Media:

Incogtube - Youtube front end

File Hosting and Pastebins

FS Filesharing service
Cake Pastebin short term filesharing and pastebin
PrivateBin Encrypted pastebin
IDK's CowYo pastebin, Mirror (Requires JS)

Torrents

PaTracker Main torrent tracker
Chudo's Torrents (French) torrent tracker

Social Networks and Microblogging

Teddit - Privacy respecting Reddit front end
Ramble - Multi-Network reddit alternative

Exploring I2P

Notbob List online .i2p sites and categorizes them

I2P Name Registries

inr.i2p
reg.i2p operated by PurpleI2P Team
dns.chudo.i2p
isitup.i2p Another I2P Name Registry and checking tools to see if a eepsite is offline.

Search engines

IRC

Irc2P comes pre-configured with I2P. To connect with other networks, please follow this tutorial.

Irc2P (works out of the box)

Syndie

An open source system for operating distributed forums in anonymous networks

Syndie Project Syndie Project Website
Syndie Documentation Project
syndie.darrob.i2p
syndie.echelon.i2p
syndie.inscrutable.i2p
syndie.killyourtv.i2p
syndie.meeh.i2p
syndie.welterde.i2p

Inproxies

You can use inproxies to surf the I2P network without having to have an I2P router.

i2phides.me / i2p.mk16.de (i2p-inproxy.mk16.de)
onion.ly
www.darknetproxy.com

founded 1 year ago

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Hardware requirement, selfhosting dedicated gateway (lemmy.wtf)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I host i2p on a rpi 3 in order to use it as a mutualize gateway for my private network. i2p consume so much ressources that I couldn't even curl it's web interfaces. It try to get some info on what are the hardware requirements, but didn't find anything.

What are the minimal hardware requirements for the current version of i2p ?
Is it a good idea to mutualise a gateway on a private server ?
If so, is it a good idea to give access to this gateway through a VPN ?

Thanks for your answers

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

i run i2p on rpi 3's, you can modify some things so it uses less resources. the 3's won't handle being a floodfill very well from what i've found so make sure you have that off. also i've only ever tested this headless, not sure if using gui or not. overall unless you want to do a lot of file transfers or really want to use the included features in the java router id recommend sticking to i2pd with the rpis.

biggest thing is i2pd uses way less resources. really shines for low power devices and for running long-term as a transit node. i notice pages load faster and had less issues with irc. the default tunnels is 5000 so i'd change it to maybe 3000 in config file if you're pushing a lot of traffic through it. even so it never seems to fully utilize the cpu.

java uses much more memory and hammers the cpu. i've found for whatever reason i can achieve more overall throughput though, so i run java on a couple 3's. You can also set the max memory for the java router to lower. Seems to me that overall number of tunnels consume more memory (much more in java) and throughput is limited by cpu. you can reduce the number of participating tunnels if it gets unstable. I also overclock the cpu a bit to around 1300.

also i wouldn't personally give access to the router directly if you care about maintaining anonymity. you can access it safely with vpn/ssh. you could probably do some sort of in-proxy if you want other people to be able to use i2p without needing a router, i've never done this myself though.