Forgive me if my terminology if off, here -- I'm fairly new to AIX.I have an AIX server (6.1) running VIO, with two client partitions (e.g. CLIENTA and CLIENTB).  The two partitions are running on an SEA bound between a single physical interface (ent0) and a virtual (eth4).  Both partitions have this SEA as their first interface within the IVM (these appear within each partition as ent0).  This was fine in our back-office staging environment; however, once deployed to our datacentre, it is intended that the CLIENTA partition will only be accessible from one VLAN (112), the CLIENTB partition will only be accessible from another VLAN (113) and the VIO will only be accessible from a management VLAN (12).  We already have the firewall and switching in place to support these VLANs and maintain these boundaries for our existing equipment (mostly Windows/Linux).Using a combination of articles (1, 2), I have done the following:Using cfgassist, I have created an Etherchannel (ent9) across two of the physical interfaces (ent2 and ent3) as a basic NIB, with ent2 as active and ent3 as backup.I have then created the SEA on top of the Etherchannel (ent10), using mkvdev -sea ent9 -vadapter ent5 -default ent5 -defaultid 1I have then created the two client VLANs with mkvdev -vlan ent10 -tagid 112 and mkvdev -vlan ent10 -tagid 113 (creating ent11 and ent12, respectively).Now, when examining the 'Ethernet' tab for the CLIENTA and CLIENTB partitions in the IVM, it looks like I can assign either ent0 or ent9 as an adapter.  For now, I have left ent0 as the first adapter and ent9 as the second.On each client partition, I can see ent0 and ent1, and I have access on our staging LAN using ent0.  I'm trying to get the access working through the ent1 interface (i.e. using the Etherchannel/VLAN trunk) but traffic is not going through.On each client partition I have created a VLAN device (using smitty), with base adapter ent1 and tagid 112 (for CLIENTA) or 113 (for CLIENTB).  This created ent2.  I have used mktcpip to assign an IP, subnet mask and gateway to the equivalent en2 device.  netstat -nr shows what I would expect it to, with my staging network on the en0 interface, and the regular network (and default route) on the en2 interface.I am now testing by ping to both the outside world (8.8.8.8) and to/from another device on the 112 LAN and I'm getting nothing in either direction.What am I missing which is preventing traffic from passing along the interface?What is there to stop the end-user (once deployed) from making their own VLAN interface tagged 113 and accessing the other client's partition?Update: Command outputsVIO$ entstat -all ent10-------------------------------------------------------------ETHERNET STATISTICS (ent10) :Device Type: Shared Ethernet AdapterHardware Address: 98:be:94:02:1a:e2Elapsed Time: 0 days 2 hours 55 minutes 50 secondsTransmit Statistics:                          Receive Statistics:--------------------                          -------------------Packets: 1054                                 Packets: 16121Bytes: 63240                                  Bytes: 1787781Interrupts: 0                                 Interrupts: 16121Transmit Errors: 0                            Receive Errors: 0Packets Dropped: 0                            Packets Dropped: 0                                              Bad Packets: 0Max Packets on S/W Transmit Queue: 0         S/W Transmit Queue Overflow: 0Current S/W+H/W Transmit Queue Length: 0Elapsed Time: 0 days 0 hours 0 minutes 0 secondsBroadcast Packets: 0                          Broadcast Packets: 2146Multicast Packets: 0                          Multicast Packets: 11682No Carrier Sense: 0                           CRC Errors: 0DMA Underrun: 0                               DMA Overrun: 0Lost CTS Errors: 0                            Alignment Errors: 0Max Collision Errors: 0                       No Resource Errors: 0Late Collision Errors: 0                      Receive Collision Errors: 0Deferred: 0                                   Packet Too Short Errors: 0SQE Test: 0                                   Packet Too Long Errors: 0Timeout Errors: 0                             Packets Discarded by Adapter: 0Single Collision Count: 0                     Receiver Start Count: 0Multiple Collision Count: 0Current HW Transmit Queue Length: 0General Statistics:-------------------No mbuf Errors: 0Adapter Reset Count: 0Adapter Data Rate: 0Driver Flags: Up Broadcast Running         Simplex 64BitSupport ChecksumOffload         LargeSend DataRateSet --------------------------------------------------------------Statistics for adapters in the Shared Ethernet Adapter ent10--------------------------------------------------------------Number of adapters: 2SEA Flags: 00000183    < THREAD >    < LARGESEND >VLAN Ids :    ent5: 2Real Side Statistics:    Packets received: 8060    Packets bridged: 1054    Packets consumed: 5807    Packets fragmented: 0    Packets transmitted: 0    Packets dropped: 5807    Packets filtered(VlanId): 1199    Packets filtered(Reserved address): 5807Virtual Side Statistics:    Packets received: 0    Packets bridged: 0    Packets consumed: 0    Packets fragmented: 0    Packets transmitted: 1054    Packets dropped: 0    Packets filtered(VlanId): 0Other Statistics:    Output packets generated: 0    Output packets dropped: 0    Device output failures: 0    Memory allocation failures: 0    ICMP error packets sent: 0    Non IP packets larger than MTU: 0    Thread queue overflow packets: 0        SEA THREADS INFORMATION        Thread .............. #0    SEA Default Queue #8     Queue full dropped packets: 0    Queue packets queued: 0    Queue average packets queued: 1    Queue packets count: 19    Queue max packets queued: 1        Thread .............. #1    SEA Default Queue #8     Queue full dropped packets: 0    Queue packets queued: 0    Queue average packets queued: 1    Queue packets count: 713    Queue max packets queued: 1        Thread .............. #3    SEA Default Queue #8     Queue full dropped packets: 0    Queue packets queued: 0    Queue average packets queued: 1    Queue packets count: 5567    Queue max packets queued: 1        Thread .............. #4    SEA Default Queue #8     Queue full dropped packets: 0    Queue packets queued: 0    Queue average packets queued: 1    Queue packets count: 1074    Queue max packets queued: 1        Thread .............. #5    SEA Default Queue #8     Queue full dropped packets: 0    Queue packets queued: 0    Queue average packets queued: 1    Queue packets count: 6    Queue max packets queued: 1        Thread .............. #6    SEA Default Queue #8     Queue full dropped packets: 0    Queue packets queued: 0    Queue average packets queued: 1    Queue packets count: 681    Queue max packets queued: 1--------------------------------------------------------------Real Adapter: ent9ETHERNET STATISTICS (ent9) :Device Type: EtherChannelHardware Address: 98:be:94:02:1a:e2Transmit Statistics:                          Receive Statistics:--------------------                          -------------------Packets: 0                                    Packets: 16121Bytes: 0                                      Bytes: 1787781Interrupts: 0                                 Interrupts: 16121Transmit Errors: 0                            Receive Errors: 0Packets Dropped: 0                            Packets Dropped: 0                                              Bad Packets: 0Max Packets on S/W Transmit Queue: 0         S/W Transmit Queue Overflow: 0Current S/W+H/W Transmit Queue Length: 0Broadcast Packets: 0                          Broadcast Packets: 2146Multicast Packets: 0                          Multicast Packets: 11682No Carrier Sense: 0                           CRC Errors: 0DMA Underrun: 0                               DMA Overrun: 0Lost CTS Errors: 0                            Alignment Errors: 0Max Collision Errors: 0                       No Resource Errors: 0Late Collision Errors: 0                      Receive Collision Errors: 0Deferred: 0                                   Packet Too Short Errors: 0SQE Test: 0                                   Packet Too Long Errors: 0Timeout Errors: 0                             Packets Discarded by Adapter: 0Single Collision Count: 0                     Receiver Start Count: 0Multiple Collision Count: 0Current HW Transmit Queue Length: 0General Statistics:-------------------No mbuf Errors: 0Adapter Reset Count: 0Adapter Data Rate: 2000Driver Flags: Up Broadcast Running         Simplex Promiscuous 64BitSupport         ChecksumOffload PrivateSegment LargeSend DataRateSet ==========================================================================================================================Statistics for every adapter in the EtherChannel:-------------------------------------------------Number of adapters: 2Active channel: primary channelOperating mode: Network interface backup mode-------------------------------------------------------------ETHERNET STATISTICS (ent2) :Device Type: Gigabit Ethernet PCIe Adapter (e4145716e4142004)Hardware Address: 98:be:94:02:1a:e2Transmit Statistics:                          Receive Statistics:--------------------                          -------------------Packets: 0                                    Packets: 8060Bytes: 0                                      Bytes: 898955Interrupts: 0                                 Interrupts: 8060Transmit Errors: 0                            Receive Errors: 0Packets Dropped: 0                            Packets Dropped: 0                                              Bad Packets: 0Max Packets on S/W Transmit Queue: 0         S/W Transmit Queue Overflow: 0Current S/W+H/W Transmit Queue Length: 0Broadcast Packets: 0                          Broadcast Packets: 1073Multicast Packets: 0                          Multicast Packets: 5841No Carrier Sense: 0                           CRC Errors: 0DMA Underrun: 0                               DMA Overrun: 0Lost CTS Errors: 0                            Alignment Errors: 0Max Collision Errors: 0                       No Resource Errors: 0Late Collision Errors: 0                      Receive Collision Errors: 0Deferred: 0                                   Packet Too Short Errors: 0SQE Test: 0                                   Packet Too Long Errors: 0Timeout Errors: 0                             Packets Discarded by Adapter: 0Single Collision Count: 0                     Receiver Start Count: 0Multiple Collision Count: 0Current HW Transmit Queue Length: 0General Statistics:-------------------No mbuf Errors: 0Adapter Reset Count: 0Adapter Data Rate: 2000Driver Flags: Up Broadcast Running         Simplex Promiscuous 64BitSupport         ChecksumOffload PrivateSegment LargeSend         DataRateSet Gigabit Ethernet PCIe Adapter (e4145716e4142004) Specific Statistics:-----------------------------------------------------------------Additional Driver Flags: Entries to transmit timeout routine: 0Link Status: UpMedia Speed Selected: 100 Mbps Full DuplexMedia Speed Running: 100 Mbps Full DuplexTransmit and Receive Flow Control Status: Enabled        XON Flow Control Packets Transmitted: 0        XON Flow Control Packets Received: 0        XOFF Flow Control Packets Transmitted: 0        XOFF Flow Control Packets Received: 0Jumbo Frames: DisabledTCP Segmentation Offload: Enabled        TCP Segmentation Offload Packets Transmitted: 0Assigned Interrupt Source Numbers:         Bus interrupt level 0 : 255520        Bus interrupt level 1 : 255521Receive statistics for RXQ number: 1        Number of receive packets: 8060        Number of receive bytes: 898955        Number of receive interrupts: 8060        Number of receive bad packets: 0        Number of receive packet drops: 0        Number of RX mbufs allocated from system pool: 0        Number of RX mbufs allocated from system pool for Jumbo: 0        Number of system pool RX mbuf allocation failures: 0        Number of rx_hog events: 0        Receive TCP Segment Aggregation: DisabledTransmit statistics for TXQ number: 1        Number of transmit packets: 0        Number of transmit bytes: 0        Number of Unicast Packets: 0        Number of Multicast packets: 0        Number of Broadcast packets: 0        Number of transmit packet drops: 0        Number of transmit queue overflows: 0        TCP segmentation offload packets transmitted: 0        Maximum entries used on this transmit queue: 0-------------------------------------------------------------Backup adapter - ent3:======================ETHERNET STATISTICS (ent3) :Device Type: Gigabit Ethernet PCIe Adapter (e4145716e4142004)Hardware Address: 98:be:94:02:1a:e2Transmit Statistics:                          Receive Statistics:--------------------                          -------------------Packets: 0                                    Packets: 8061Bytes: 0                                      Bytes: 888826Interrupts: 0                                 Interrupts: 8061Transmit Errors: 0                            Receive Errors: 0Packets Dropped: 0                            Packets Dropped: 0                                              Bad Packets: 0Max Packets on S/W Transmit Queue: 0         S/W Transmit Queue Overflow: 0Current S/W+H/W Transmit Queue Length: 0Broadcast Packets: 0                          Broadcast Packets: 1073Multicast Packets: 0                          Multicast Packets: 5841No Carrier Sense: 0                           CRC Errors: 0DMA Underrun: 0                               DMA Overrun: 0Lost CTS Errors: 0                            Alignment Errors: 0Max Collision Errors: 0                       No Resource Errors: 0Late Collision Errors: 0                      Receive Collision Errors: 0Deferred: 0                                   Packet Too Short Errors: 0SQE Test: 0                                   Packet Too Long Errors: 0Timeout Errors: 0                             Packets Discarded by Adapter: 0Single Collision Count: 0                     Receiver Start Count: 0Multiple Collision Count: 0Current HW Transmit Queue Length: 0General Statistics:-------------------No mbuf Errors: 0Adapter Reset Count: 0Adapter Data Rate: 2000Driver Flags: Up Broadcast Running         Simplex Promiscuous 64BitSupport         ChecksumOffload PrivateSegment LargeSend         DataRateSet Gigabit Ethernet PCIe Adapter (e4145716e4142004) Specific Statistics:-----------------------------------------------------------------Additional Driver Flags: Entries to transmit timeout routine: 0Link Status: UpMedia Speed Selected: 100 Mbps Full DuplexMedia Speed Running: 100 Mbps Full DuplexTransmit and Receive Flow Control Status: Enabled        XON Flow Control Packets Transmitted: 0        XON Flow Control Packets Received: 0        XOFF Flow Control Packets Transmitted: 0        XOFF Flow Control Packets Received: 0Jumbo Frames: DisabledTCP Segmentation Offload: Enabled        TCP Segmentation Offload Packets Transmitted: 0Assigned Interrupt Source Numbers:         Bus interrupt level 0 : 255496        Bus interrupt level 1 : 255497Receive statistics for RXQ number: 1        Number of receive packets: 8061        Number of receive bytes: 888826        Number of receive interrupts: 8061        Number of receive bad packets: 0        Number of receive packet drops: 0        Number of RX mbufs allocated from system pool: 0        Number of RX mbufs allocated from system pool for Jumbo: 0        Number of system pool RX mbuf allocation failures: 0        Number of rx_hog events: 0        Receive TCP Segment Aggregation: DisabledTransmit statistics for TXQ number: 1        Number of transmit packets: 0        Number of transmit bytes: 0        Number of Unicast Packets: 0        Number of Multicast packets: 0        Number of Broadcast packets: 0        Number of transmit packet drops: 0        Number of transmit queue overflows: 0        TCP segmentation offload packets transmitted: 0        Maximum entries used on this transmit queue: 0--------------------------------------------------------------Virtual Adapter: ent5ETHERNET STATISTICS (ent5) :Device Type: Virtual I/O Ethernet Adapter (l-lan)Hardware Address: 86:1f:e3:5f:21:04Transmit Statistics:                          Receive Statistics:--------------------                          -------------------Packets: 1054                                 Packets: 0Bytes: 63240                                  Bytes: 0Interrupts: 0                                 Interrupts: 0Transmit Errors: 0                            Receive Errors: 0Packets Dropped: 0                            Packets Dropped: 0                                              Bad Packets: 0Max Packets on S/W Transmit Queue: 0         S/W Transmit Queue Overflow: 0Current S/W+H/W Transmit Queue Length: 0Broadcast Packets: 0                          Broadcast Packets: 0Multicast Packets: 0                          Multicast Packets: 0No Carrier Sense: 0                           CRC Errors: 0DMA Underrun: 0                               DMA Overrun: 0Lost CTS Errors: 0                            Alignment Errors: 0Max Collision Errors: 0                       No Resource Errors: 0Late Collision Errors: 0                      Receive Collision Errors: 0Deferred: 0                                   Packet Too Short Errors: 0SQE Test: 0                                   Packet Too Long Errors: 0Timeout Errors: 0                             Packets Discarded by Adapter: 0Single Collision Count: 0                     Receiver Start Count: 0Multiple Collision Count: 0Current HW Transmit Queue Length: 0General Statistics:-------------------No mbuf Errors: 0Adapter Reset Count: 0Adapter Data Rate: 20000Driver Flags: Up Broadcast Running         Simplex Promiscuous AllMulticast         64BitSupport ChecksumOffload DataRateSet Virtual I/O Ethernet Adapter (l-lan) Specific Statistics:---------------------------------------------------------RQ Length: 4545Trunk Adapter: True  Priority: 1  Active: TrueFilter MCast Mode: FalseFilters: 255  Enabled: 0  Queued: 0  Overflow: 0LAN State: OperationalHypervisor Send Failures: 1054  Receiver Failures: 1054  Send Errors: 0Hypervisor Receive Failures: 0Invalid VLAN ID Packets: 0ILLAN Attributes: 0000000000003103 [0000000000003103]Port VLAN ID:     2VLAN Tag IDs:  NoneSwitch ID: ETHERNET0Switch Mode: VEBManagement VLAN: DisabledHypervisor Information    Virtual Memory            Total (KB)                 80  I/O Memory                VRM Minimum (KB)          100    VRM Desired (KB)          100    DMA Max Min (KB)          128Transmit Information      Transmit Buffers           Buffer Size             65536    Buffers                    32    History                   No Buffers                0  Virtual Memory            Total (KB)               2048  I/O Memory                VRM Minimum (KB)         2176    VRM Desired (KB)        16384    DMA Max Min (KB)        16384Receive Information       Receive Buffers            Buffer Type              Tiny    Small   Medium    Large     Huge    Min Buffers               512      512      128       24       24    Max Buffers              2048     2048      256       64       64    Allocated                 512      512      128       24       24    Registered                512      512      128       24       24    History                   Max Allocated           512      512      128       24       24      Lowest Registered       512      512      128       24       24  Virtual Memory            Minimum (KB)              256     1024     2048      768 1536    Maximum (KB)             1024     4096     4096     2048     4096  I/O Memory                VRM Minimum (KB)         4096     4096     2560      864     1632    VRM Desired (KB)        16384    16384     5120     2304     4352    DMA Max Min (KB)        16384    16384     8192     4096     8192I/O Memory Information    Total VRM Minimum (KB)    15524  Total VRM Desired (KB)    61028  Total DMA Max Min (KB)    69760CLIENTA# entstat -d ent2-------------------------------------------------------------ETHERNET STATISTICS (ent2) :Device Type: Hardware Address: 86:1f:e4:6d:3d:05Elapsed Time: 0 days 2 hours 44 minutes 8 secondsTransmit Statistics:                          Receive Statistics:--------------------                          -------------------Packets: 0                                    Packets: 0Bytes: 0                                      Bytes: 0Interrupts: 0                                 Interrupts: 0Transmit Errors: 71                           Receive Errors: 0Packets Dropped: 71                           Packets Dropped: 0                                              Bad Packets: 0Max Packets on S/W Transmit Queue: 0         S/W Transmit Queue Overflow: 0Current S/W+H/W Transmit Queue Length: 0Broadcast Packets: 0                          Broadcast Packets: 0Multicast Packets: 0                          Multicast Packets: 0No Carrier Sense: 0                           CRC Errors: 0DMA Underrun: 0                               DMA Overrun: 0Lost CTS Errors: 0                            Alignment Errors: 0Max Collision Errors: 0                       No Resource Errors: 0Late Collision Errors: 0                      Receive Collision Errors: 0Deferred: 0                                   Packet Too Short Errors: 0SQE Test: 0                                   Packet Too Long Errors: 0Timeout Errors: 0                             Packets Discarded by Adapter: 0Single Collision Count: 0                     Receiver Start Count: 0Multiple Collision Count: 0Current HW Transmit Queue Length: 0General Statistics:-------------------No mbuf Errors: 0Adapter Reset Count: 0Adapter Data Rate: 20000Driver Flags: Up Broadcast Running         Simplex 64BitSupport ChecksumOffload         DataRateSet VIOENT # entstat -d ent1-------------------------------------------------------------ETHERNET STATISTICS (ent1) :Device Type: Virtual I/O Ethernet Adapter (l-lan)Hardware Address: 86:1f:e4:6d:3d:05Elapsed Time: 0 days 2 hours 44 minutes 23 secondsTransmit Statistics:                          Receive Statistics:--------------------                          -------------------Packets: 0                                    Packets: 0Bytes: 0                                      Bytes: 0Interrupts: 0                                 Interrupts: 0Transmit Errors: 71                           Receive Errors: 0Packets Dropped: 71                           Packets Dropped: 0                                              Bad Packets: 0Max Packets on S/W Transmit Queue: 0         S/W Transmit Queue Overflow: 0Current S/W+H/W Transmit Queue Length: 0Broadcast Packets: 0                          Broadcast Packets: 0Multicast Packets: 0                          Multicast Packets: 0No Carrier Sense: 0                           CRC Errors: 0DMA Underrun: 0                               DMA Overrun: 0Lost CTS Errors: 0                            Alignment Errors: 0Max Collision Errors: 0                       No Resource Errors: 0Late Collision Errors: 0                      Receive Collision Errors: 0Deferred: 0                                   Packet Too Short Errors: 0SQE Test: 0                                   Packet Too Long Errors: 0Timeout Errors: 0                             Packets Discarded by Adapter: 0Single Collision Count: 0                     Receiver Start Count: 0Multiple Collision Count: 0Current HW Transmit Queue Length: 0General Statistics:-------------------No mbuf Errors: 0Adapter Reset Count: 0Adapter Data Rate: 20000Driver Flags: Up Broadcast Running         Simplex 64BitSupport ChecksumOffload         DataRateSet VIOENT Virtual I/O Ethernet Adapter (l-lan) Specific Statistics:---------------------------------------------------------RQ Length: 4545Trunk Adapter: FalseFilter MCast Mode: FalseFilters: 255  Enabled: 1  Queued: 0  Overflow: 0LAN State: OperationalHypervisor Send Failures: 0  Receiver Failures: 0  Send Errors: 0Hypervisor Receive Failures: 0Invalid VLAN ID Packets: 71ILLAN Attributes: 0000000000003002 [0000000000003002]Port VLAN ID:     2VLAN Tag IDs:  NoneSwitch ID: ETHERNET0Hypervisor Information    Virtual Memory            Total (KB)                 80  I/O Memory                VRM Minimum (KB)          100    VRM Desired (KB)          100    DMA Max Min (KB)          128Transmit Information      Transmit Buffers           Buffer Size             65536    Buffers                    32    History                   No Buffers                0  Virtual Memory            Total (KB)               2048  I/O Memory                VRM Minimum (KB)         2176    VRM Desired (KB)        16384    DMA Max Min (KB)        16384Receive Information       Receive Buffers            Buffer Type              Tiny    Small   Medium    Large     Huge    Min Buffers               512      512      128       24       24    Max Buffers              2048     2048      256       64       64    Allocated                 512      512      128       24       24    Registered                512      512      128       24       24    History                   Max Allocated           512      512      128       24       24      Lowest Registered       512      512      128       24       24  Virtual Memory            Minimum (KB)              256     1024     2048      768 1536    Maximum (KB)             1024     4096     4096     2048     4096  I/O Memory                VRM Minimum (KB)         4096     4096     2560      864     1632    VRM Desired (KB)        16384    16384     5120     2304     4352    DMA Max Min (KB)        16384    16384     8192     4096     8192I/O Memory Information    Total VRM Minimum (KB)    15524  Total VRM Desired (KB)    61028  Total DMA Max Min (KB)    69760CLIENTBNot yet configured
Allocating VLAN to partition
virtual machine;aix;vlan