<![CDATA[Using Pound as a Load Balancer?]]>Hi,

I was wondering if anyone has successfully gotten Apsis Pound (http://www.apsis.ch/pound/) to work as the Load Balancer on pfSense 1.2?  I'm looking to use it, but am new to pfSense and pound, and wanted to get some feedback before I tried anything like that.

If you did, were you able to find a binary pkg for FreeBSD, or did you have to recompile pound from source?  What pitfalls / problems did you run into?  Is it easy to setup / configure?  Has anyone troubled to make a Pound pkg for pfSense?

Thanks for any info!

Eric

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/13703/using-pound-as-a-load-balancerRSS for NodeWed, 15 Jul 2026 11:00:00 GMTFri, 27 Feb 2009 04:33:13 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Using Pound as a Load Balancer? on Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:24:31 GMT]]>Sorry for the delay in responding.  Basically, the load balancer in pfSense is a layer 4 load balancer (it only works on IP).  Pound is a layer-7 LB that is able to understand the contents of the packets and able to decrypt https traffic prior to LB'ing.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/196248https://forum.netgate.com/post/196248Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:24:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Using Pound as a Load Balancer? on Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:38:56 GMT]]>Maybe I'm missing something here but why use pound when load balancing is already built in to PfSense?

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