You could use it to prop the door open or as a step to reach a high cabinet.
It is old old old. That is a old bay networks product that nortel acquired back in the late 1990's if I remember right. It is a very poor switch first it is only 10/100 and then it is not even as fast as a $5 8 port 10/100 switch. It used to run IPSEC but I suspect it does not support any of the newer options like AES for encryption or the support of NATT. This pretty much makes it unusable as a VPN box.
As I suspect you know nortel is long gone and a bay systems stuff was not real popular even when nortel was doing ok.