Setting Up A High-Availability Load Balancer (With Failover and Session Support) With Pound/Keepalived On Debian EtchVersion 1.0 Author: Falko Timme This article explains how to set up a two-node load balancer in an active/passive configuration with Pound and keepalived on Debian Etch. The load balancer sits between the user and two (or more) backend Apache web servers that hold the same content.