what is gab seeding ?

Hi ALL ,

Can somebody explain me the GAB seeding

1.As per GAB seeding i understand that once the node is seeded only we can run VCS on that node.

GAB automatically seeds nodes under the following conditions:

• An unseeded node communicates with a seeded node

• All nodes in the cluster are unseeded but can communicate with each other

2.How to determine a node is seeded oor not ? gabconfig -a ?

3.so if we have the llt links working on nodes we will never face a problem of node being unseeded ?

4.why do we require a manual seeding ?

5.Hastart and stating VCS service is same ? or there is any diffrence

Regards,

siva