Net Interface #01 - Defining an Initial Set of Interfaces that Can be Accessed by My Devices

In the future, as part of my ability to keep up doing my HomeLab stuff, I will need to be able to get to some software/VM/container things from the GSV-Network side of things using my laptop/iPhone/iPad.  These items will consist of experiments that are ongoing, documentation software, calendar/project items, etc.  So as part of this development, these are the initial components that I will put up to interface to:

• An NGINX server to provide reverse proxy control to web based items in my network such as NextCloud, Redmine, Blog, Journal, NodeRed, HomeAssistant, etc.
• A web services port for interfacing to my experiments
• An IPSec w/GRE port for interfacing directly to individual vlans within the HomeLab through a special interface built from a RPi Zero W
  

Possible Networking Changes in an All WiFi Environment

Since the retirement village will have only WiFi connection, there will be some things that I will need to add to make the setup easier for the future.  It seems that I will be able to talk between devices over the WiFi network, including all over the campus.  I am counting on this to be able to do some interesting network things.  So there would need to be some of the following developed:

• WiFi Bridge - this will be needed to connect the non-WiFi equipment, like the Edgerouter-12, to the WiFi network
• MQTT Server - this would provide an MQTT instance at the WiFi level on the ER12 router for some automation things
• Home Assistant Server - this would provide an HA instance through the ER12 router
• L2TP IPSec Endpoint - this would provide a connection for my laptops from anywhere in the community through the ER12 router
• Raspberry Pi WiFi Endpoint - L2TP IPSec GRE based endpoint that isolates the Ethernet connection of the RPi from the WiFi portion which runs over the campus WiFi network; it also allows a point to point connection between RPi endpoints with multiple networking protocols running over it on whatever vlans I desire; this might possibly be implemented by an RPi Zero W/USB plug
• Plex Server - this would provide Plex capability through the ER12 router
• NextCloud Server - this would provide file and project services through the ER12 router