Remember this: 1) for inbound traffic there will be no difference at all. 2) routers will ignore a static route if the link is down. If you can get BFD from the providers then even better. So you can emulate 99% of what you get with full routes by loading in static routes. A simple example would be adding a 0.0.0.0/1 route to one provider and 128.0.0.0/1 route to the other and get approximately 50% load sharing. You will still get redundancy as the route will ignored if the link is down and traffic will follow the default route to the other transit provider. If you find an offline source for IP ranges originated by each provider and their peers, you can add routes for that to improve routing. Taking in partial routes is also good if this provides you with a route count that your routers can handle. BGP shortest AS length routing is really not very good to begin with. If you want the best routes, you need to analyse your traffic, sort by volume or other metric and figure out which way is best for your top x AS destinations. It may be more work, but you will get better routing compared to investing in expensive routers to take in full routes and then hope BGP magic takes cares for the rest automatically. Regards, Baldur