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Firewall States

pfSense® is a stateful firewall and uses one state to track each connection to and from the firewall. These states may be viewed in several ways in the WebGUI and from the console.

• Viewing in the WebGUI
  • Filtering States
  • Interpreting States
• States Summary
• Source Tracking States
• Reset State Table / Source Tracking Table
• Viewing States with pfTop
  • pfTop in the GUI
  • pfTop on the Console