Load balancing outbound requests from OAG

Hi,
I need to load balance outbound requests from OAG to a cluster of Application Servers (which expose some web services): do I need a hardware (or software) load balancer product? Isn't API Gateway able to do the job by himself?
Thanks.
Bye.
Roberto

Hi,
By adding a remote host you can achieve load balancing. So make up a "fake" host that should not exist just not to collide with any actual service, add that host as a remote host and then add the IP's in the list of the of load balancing. Us the fake host in your connection filter and the gateway will automatically replace it host with a correct IP from the load balancing list.

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