The normal setup is that ether1-gateway interface is connected to a DSL modem and it is entirely outside of the LAN, if I understand correctly.
However, I want to be able to access the modem from the LAN so I thought the best way would be to add the ether1-gateway interface to the bridge-local interface witch connectes the ether2-master (which is the master to ether3, 4 and 5), wlan1 and wlan2 interfaces I have. This worked in the sense that I was now able to access the modem from the LAN, but the modem soon disconnected it's PPPoE connection and it didn't reestablish until I removed the ether1-gateway interface from the bridge.
Since there were some adjustment periods involved (the PPPoE connection didn't break immediately, it didn't reestablish immediately after removing the ether1-gateway from the bridge), I was wondering if it was just a coincidence or is it really not supposed to work that way, and if not, what would be the correct way to enable access to the modem from the LAN while retaining the PPPoE connection on ether1-gateway?