Sadly, we just couldn't get Pound to work properly with these Axis IP cameras. Even with a configuration such as that below, Pound on openBSD 4.5 would not let the camera view through. We kept getting 503 service unavailable errors.
I worked on this for two weeks trying to get this working properly without any luck. As a last ditch effort, we installed Win2k3 R2 Server and ISA 2006 Standard SP-1 and set it up as a reverse proxy. Within 3 hours, we were able to configure ISA to reverse proxy two of the cameras without any issues and the password box for camera setup works as it should. Sadly, open-source failed us in this. Pound is a great product and I was able to get other internal web sites to work through the Pound box, there was just something that the Axis camera would not work properly. Thank you for a great product and keep up the good work.. -Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Maze, Jeffrey S. [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 8:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Pound Mailing List] Axis IP Cameras Here's the URL of the camera directly. http://outsidecamera/view/view.shtml?idD192&imagePath=jpg/video.mjpg &sizeWithin the URL address bar of the webbrowser, it only shows http://outsidecamera/view/view.shtml I'm trying to configure Pound to use this "?id=xxx" portion of the URL for it's session tracking, but this too doesn't work. When I try this, I get a "The service is not available. Please try again later." error. I've tried "pound -c -v -f /etc/pound/pound.cfg" and it reports the config file is ok. So I start pound and ps is reporting it started. Yet, there's nothing showing up within the messages logs and I get the error above. Any ideas? Pound.cfg User "proxy" Group "proxy" LogLevel 3 Alive 10 ListenHTTP Address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Port 80 End Service URL ".*id=" HeadRequire "Host:.*outsidecamera.*" BackEnd Address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Port 80 Timeout 300 End Session Type URL ID "id" TTL 300 End End -----Original Message----- From: Maze, Jeffrey S. [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 2:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Pound Mailing List] Axis IP Cameras Hello, I installed Pound onto an openBSD 4.5 box and it works fine when connecting to any internal websites. It was amazingly easy to setup and get running. Thanks for a great product. Anyway, the true purpose to getting Pound up and running was so we could connect to our internal IP security cameras from externally on the internet. They're Axis cameras and can be brought up via a web browser. When I connect to our pound box, the web browser title and tab will show the name of the camera (eg. Live view - AXIS 215 PTZ Network Camera) and then it sits there until the time-out period. I then get the "service is unavailable." If I do a netstat of the BSD box, it shows my IP connecting into Pound, but the IP address of the camera shows a SYN_SENT. I can lynx to the camera's IP from the box fine (it reports I need a browser with Java, etc) and can ping and everything fine. Anyone try a configuration such as this or have something I can try to get this working. Thanks.. -Jeff -- To unsubscribe send an email with subject unsubscribe to [email protected]. Please contact [email protected] for questions. -- To unsubscribe send an email with subject unsubscribe to [email protected]. Please contact [email protected] for questions. -- To unsubscribe send an email with subject unsubscribe to [email protected]. Please contact [email protected] for questions.
