SEA - NIB (on clients) or failover (beetween VIOSes)

[unprophete]

I have setup two VIO Servers with SEA failover. "Probably" works good but....

On primary SEA VIO Server I see:

$ entstat -all ent7 | grep Active
Priority: 1 Active: True

and on backup SEA VIO Server at the same time:

$ entstat -all ent7 | grep Active
Priority: 2 Active: False


When I halt "primary" VIO Server, on the second I get:

$ entstat -all ent7 | grep Active
Priority: 2 Active: True

and network still works fine on client LPARs.


Now where my anxiety comes from:

netaddr (address to ping) during SEA configuratio has been set.

VIO Servers have no IP configured on sea's en7 interface. I am accessing VIO Servers via dedicated admin interfaces configured on virtual ethernet adapter from HEA (they are not in promiscious mode).

Due to lack of IPs I could confiugre on en7 SEA interface,(small production subnet - I need all these IPs for client LPARs), I am not sure if the test ping (netaddr) is reliable in my configuration. The IP to ping I have set default gateway IP of production subnet which is also pingable through ADMIN network.

Is everythig fine with my SEA failover mode configuration? Is the "address to Ping" check reliable when I have no IP configured on SEA en7 interface?