Firewall States

pfSense® software 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 GUI and from the console.

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