States not cleared when WAN down
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If I understand it right, by default PFsense 2.1 will clear the states when the WAN interface is down.
In my case this does not happen or did I forget to make a setting right ?
Bart (NL)
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What evidence lead you to conclude
@bartwiggers:In my case this does not happen
did I forget to make a setting right ?
I presume you mean: System -> Advanced, Miscellaneous tab, Gateway Monitoring section. parameter States.
I read the description to mean: a tick in the box overrides the default behaviour of clearing states when the WAN link goes down. -
Hi Wallabybob,
I simply disconnected the wan connector for a few minutes
and discovered that the states we not cleared.I did not tick the box that you discribed in your comment.
Bart (NL)
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I simply disconnected the wan connector for a few minutes
Thanks, that's useful information.
and discovered that the states were not cleared.
OK, but what did you see that caused to conclude states were not cleared? Perhaps pftop reported 10 active states or Diagnostics -> States reported 12 active states or a partially complete FTP transfer didn't report the connection broken or …
I don't know your configuration but a few minutes would be long enough for (say) a system on your LAN to attempt to create connections to a system on your OPTx interface and create states.