Shouldn’t this be a non issue for the gateway. For more context on my setup, I have a jellyfin & navidrome server which are all lan. I have a wireguard exit node, a WiFi ap, Plex server, & normal residential traffic which would be querying wan quite often. Would you still expect to see the drawbacks of software switching? If so, what would you reccomend for the router?

But please don’t use OPNsense as a switch.

Could you elaborate, why is it bad as a switch?

If I new that, I wouldn’t have an issue, all I know is that my Linux and windows desktops are unable to do it, so if I were to take myself as a sample, I would conclude that it doesn’t work at all, which is what I used to go by when making posts until others were having good experiences with it. Nowadays most of the time when it gets brought up, I’ll see roughly an even split of people for which it doesn’t work and those for who it does, I surmise that there is some fundamental misunderstanding that myself and others have that causes this, but as of right now I haven’t been able to figure it out.

The biggest issue I’ve had with element calls specifically is no audio on screen shares, they keep claiming it’s fixed, but there are a lot of setups that don’t allow it, of which mine is included. I don’t know if other call protocols have better luck, but fluxer has been solid for it since I started using it.

As far as I am concerned, fluxer fills the niche of the bridge between open protocols and discord for normies. Xmpp doesn’t have clients for all major OS’s and matrix is finicky if you care about the voice and video side of things.