Slackware 12.0 on a Nortel Contivity 1010
Posted by kc on Feb 11th, 2008
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://phreakmonkey.com/projects/Slackware-c1010
