Extending PPPoE access network with network bridge

In a situation, I had to extend my PPPoE network over a wireless bridge. I do not want to have nor maintain 2 PPPoE servers. I didn’t bother failed to understand how PPPoE works and made a wireless bridge without WDS. When one user log in from the bridged side of the network, it works flawlessly. When more users are trying to log in, the user which logged in earlier gets disconnected. Apparently this is caused by MAC address problem[1]. From the PPPoE server’s side, users logging in from the bridged side of the network have the same MAC address which is the bridge device’s MAC address. From the users’ side, they are able to see correct MAC address of every device on the other side of the network. The PPPoE server gets confused when it sends PPPoE packets because multiple users have the same MAC address and there is no way for the server to direct reply to individual user.

[1]Wireless AP is connected to the side of the network where the PPPoE server is connected to, and wireless client is connected to the other side of the network. Every device connected to the same side of the wireless AP gets the wireless client’s MAC address for every device connected over the wireless bridge, however every device over the bridge gets to see the real MAC address of every device connected to the same side of the wireless AP. I believe that if I interchange the wireless AP and client (so now PPPoE server is connected to the wireless client instead), it may work properly since the PPPoE server will get the correct MAC address of all devices over the bridge. Devices connected to the wireless AP obviously will get the same MAC address for the PPPoE server and PPPoE users connected to the same side of the wireless client, but the most important thing is that the PPPoE users over the bridge can communicate properly with the PPPoE server. Since this is a one-to-many and many-to-one situation, this should work, but not for many-to-many situation. This explanation sounds quite confusing due to my limited English. If you could rewrite this part, please let me know.

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