[B.A.T.M.A.N.] IP connection lost when a node is rebooted

HI, I am running a project using Raspberry pi machines that create a batman-adv mesh. Each of the rpis has three wifi devices. each of the wifi devices hosts a separate ad-hoc network. This way I can get to work on three separate channels and let batman worry about paths.

My problem is that whenever I reboot a device, it comes back to life but IP connection is never regained until; I reboot all other devices.

I have tried to move the IP address from the bt0 interface to a bridge interface that hosts br0 with no success.

Any ideas?

I am using the "Out of the box" batman-adv modules and batctl that come with the most recent raspbian repo.

Thanks in advance, Itamar