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Import and Export Policies for Network Summaries Overview

By default, OSPF uses network-summary link-state advertisements (LSAs) to transmit route information across area boundaries. Each area border router (ABR) floods network-summary LSAs to other routing devices in the same area. The ABR also controls which routes from the area are used to generate network-summary LSAs into other areas. Each ABR maintains a separate topological database for each area to which they are connected. In Junos OS Release 9.1 and later, you can configure export and import policies for OSPFv2 and OSPFv3 that enable you to control how network-summary LSAs, which contain information about interarea OSPF prefixes, are distributed and generated. For OSPFv3, the LSA is referred to as the interarea prefix LSA and performs the same function as a network-summary LSA performs for OSPFv2. An ABR originates an interarea prefix LSA for each IPv6 prefix that must be advertised into an area.

The export policy enables you to specify which summary LSAs are flooded into an area. The import policy enables you to control which routes learned from an area are used to generate summary LSAs into other areas. You define a routing policy at the [edit policy-options policy-statement policy-name] hierarchy level. As with all OSPF export policies, the default for network-summary LSA export policies is to reject everything. Similarly, as with all OSPF import policies, the default for network-summary LSA import policies is to accept all OSPF routes.

 

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Published: 2014-07-23

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