Connecting to Irc2P using Pidgin
Tails
Tails is configured to easily connect to Irc2P—the main IRC network on I2P—out of the box using a randomly generated nickname. Simply:
- Start I2P and wait 3-4 minutes until the Shared Clients destination shows a green star next to it.
- After starting Pidgin the
Accounts
window will pop up. Put a check in the box next to[randomly-generated-name]@127.0.0.1
.
- Select
Join a Chat
from theBuddies
menu.
Outside of Tails
While Pidgin can be used you might have better success with a dedicated IRC client like HexChat?, XChat, irssi, or weechat. If you'd like to use Pidgin anyway it can be set up with the following steps:
- Start I2P and wait 3-4 minutes until the Shared Clients destination shows a green star next to it.
- Start Pidgin and click the Add button on the Accounts window.
- On the Basic tab, make sure the Protocol is set to IRC. Put your desired nickname in the Username box, and set the server to
127.0.0.1
.
- Click the Advanced tab and change the port to
6668
. Fill out the Username and Real name fields if you'd like. WARNING: Any information set here will be visible in other users' IRC clients by using the/whois
command.
- Click the Proxy tab. Set the proxy type to
No Proxy
. At this point you can click Add.
- Pidgin will attempt to connect to Irc2P. Once connected you'll have a green dot next to Available. Click the
Buddies
menu and selectJoin a Chat
.
- You can get a list of channels (or rooms as Pidgin calls them) by clicking the Room List button. You can also specify a channel to join manually.
- Once you click the Join button you'll enter the channel and can start chatting.
Other channels can be joined using the
/join
command, such as/join #i2p
. Use commas to join multiple channels at once, e.g./join #i2p,#i2p-chat,#salt
. Use/part
to leave a channel.
More information about IRC can be found at http://www.ircbeginner.com/ircinfo/ircc-commands.html.
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