From 2a935b7afa1c68172c73230a1b9f5635666937c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Franco Fichtner <franco@opnsense.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:27:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] system: states kill checkbox clarification (#8578)

Co-authored-by: Stephan de Wit <stephan.de.wit@deciso.com>
---
 .../OPNsense/Routing/forms/dialogEditGateway.xml          | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/opnsense/mvc/app/controllers/OPNsense/Routing/forms/dialogEditGateway.xml b/src/opnsense/mvc/app/controllers/OPNsense/Routing/forms/dialogEditGateway.xml
index 1d7088b72..ce7740fcf 100644
--- a/src/opnsense/mvc/app/controllers/OPNsense/Routing/forms/dialogEditGateway.xml
+++ b/src/opnsense/mvc/app/controllers/OPNsense/Routing/forms/dialogEditGateway.xml
@@ -58,17 +58,17 @@
     </field>
     <field>
         <id>gateway_item.monitor_killstates</id>
-        <label>Kill states when down</label>
+        <label>Failover States</label>
         <type>checkbox</type>
         <style>monitor_opt</style>
-        <help>When a monitor down event is triggered, kill all states to this gateway.</help>
+        <help>If this gateway goes down, force clients to reconnect over a different online gateway by killing states associated with this gateway. This option requires "default gateway switching" to be enabled, or this gateway assigned as part of a gateway group to trigger.</help>
     </field>
     <field>
         <id>gateway_item.monitor_killstates_priority</id>
-        <label>Kill states metered</label>
+        <label>Failback States</label>
         <type>checkbox</type>
         <style>monitor_opt</style>
-        <help>When a monitor up event is triggered for a gateway with a higher priority (lower value) than this, kill all states to this gateway. Most common use for this switch are metered connections like LTE.</help>
+        <help>If another gateway comes up with a higher priority than this gateway, force clients to reconnect by killing states associated with this gateway. This option requires "default gateway switching" to be enabled, or this gateway assigned as part of a gateway group to trigger. The common use case for this option are metered connections over LTE that should only be used when no other gateway is online.</help>
     </field>
     <field>
         <id>gateway_item.monitor</id>