Using Pound as a Load Balancer?

benze · Feb 27, 2009, 4:33 AM

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

curly · Mar 2, 2009, 9:38 PM

Maybe I'm missing something here but why use pound when load balancing is already built in to PfSense?

benze · Apr 30, 2009, 2:24 AM

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.