Finally got a bare bones config up for 2nd stage of the lab-in-a-box type environment. The hAP hooks back to the rest of the network over an nstream bridge, then the 1st pi zero hangs off that with two eth interfaces in an rstp setup (mstpd) w/ the slower eth port (over SPI on the hat) acting as the alternate for if the faster eth port (the root port over USB using a pogo pin board) goes down, it also has the onboard wifi & bluetooth hanging off it & a 2nd bluetooth 5 interface over USB but none of those have been configured yet. The 2nd pi zero is a pre-W model but has a hat on it providing wifi & bluetooth but short of enabling DHCP on the eth interface & doing basic bring up not much has been configured there yet either. One of them is going to have a Bluetooth NAP interface bolted onto it eventually but i already have a working implementation of that elsewhere on the network so its not a priority. Still keeping an eye open for other protocols that can transport IP other than Bluetooth, wifi & ethernet too but the next step will be another zero w/ a GPS hat on that outputs a PPS signal to the GPIO header w/ the intention of doing network wide PTP.
Now this is SFF!