Slackware 12.0 on a Nortel Contivity 1010

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My company recently de-installed and discarded dozens of these little Nortel Contivity 1010 VPN devices. I pulled one apart and discovered it's basically a tiny Intel Celeron PC with no keyboard/mouse interface, one serial console port, and two 10/100 Ethernet ports. I decided it would be fun to get Linux to run on one so I could play with it... maybe use it as a small firewall, router, or OpenVPN endpoint.

I built a stripped-down install of Slackware-12.0 with Linux kernel 2.6.21.5. The install includes (amongst other things):

  • OpenSSL

  • OpenSSH

  • OpenVPN

  • iptables

  • dnsmask

  • dhcpcd

For more information, and the distribution, see my project page at:
http://cdn.phreakmonkey.com/projects/Slackware-c1010

Comments

  1. saNovember 6, 2015 at 2:42 PM

    Is it possible to send "Slackware 13.0 on a Nortel Contivity 1010.tar" file to my e-mail siim@adamson.cc

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  2. K.C.November 6, 2015 at 4:44 PM

    Huh. The link is broken. Oops.

    Seriously, though. This is *really old*. I'd recommend just buying a Raspberry Pi. ;)

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