I am trying to bring up open mesh with batman advanced. My network configuration is as follows:

_____DSL cable_____Linksys Router____Cisco PIX______Switch______ open mesh 1 ---------- open mesh 2 -------- client laptop
                                                                            192.168.50.1 | _______ my PC
                                                                                                |_______
                                                                                                |_______
                                                                                                 |_______

My IPs get automatically assigned by the PIX (In the subnet 192.168.50.0)

OPEN MESH 1 - configuration
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1. I stop the routing daemons running on them. It has eth0, ath0, ath1 and ath2 interfaces
where ath0 is in adhoc mode and ath1 and ath2 are in master mode

I create a bridge between all these interfaces (br0 - eth0, ath0, ath1, ath2) and i run
udhcpc with br0 as an argument so that my bridge gets an IP from the network

All other interfaces are given an IP of 0.0.0.0

My bridge gets an IP (192.168.50.5)

I have batman_core module and i update the /proc/net/batman-adv/interfaces with br0 interface
echo br0 > /proc/net/batman-adv/interfaces

OPENMESH 2 - configuration
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1. I stop the routing daemons. It has ath0, ath1, ath2 interfaces.
I again bridge these interfaces (br0 - ath0, ath1, ath2

I try getting an IP for this node usign the same method of running udhcpc but i am unable to
So I dont have an IP - but i dont worry about it now.

I have batman_core module and i update the /proc/net/batman-adv/interfaces with br0 interface
echo br0 > /proc/net/batman-adv/interfaces

OBSERVATION
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Now when i check connectivity using battool i can ping between openmesh 2 and openmesh 1 using battool bp
My originators file indicate the mac of the other mesh node

E.g. on openmesh2

root@open-mesh:/proc/net/batman-adv# cat originators
Originator (#/255) Nexthop [outgoingIF]: Potential nexthops ..
. [B.A.T.M.A.N. Adv 0.1-beta rv1103, MainIF/MAC: br0/00:18:0a:01:44:d0]
openmesh1 MAC (255) openmesh1 MAC [ br0]: openmesh1 MAC (255)

Associate a client
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I now try to associate a client to open mesh 2. Its IP request gets forwarded to the wired network and it receives an IP
(192.168.50.6)

However i can't batping to it from either openmesh 2 or openmesh 1

Is something missing in my configuration?