Hi All,
In reading up on one of the guides on the website, I came across the policy section regarding OSPF:
"In OSPF, you can't apply import policy to affect the LSDB, and you can't apply policy to prevent the software from installing interarea OSPF routing into the routing table. This is because a LSP assumes that all devices have the same routing information for internal routes, which causes all devices to make consistent forwarding decisions. If you could block internal routes, you could create routing loops."
Makes perfect sense to me. However, if that is the case, why are export policies permitted? Regardless of whether or not I configured an import policy on my receiving OSPF router that blocks certain OSPF routes or if I configure an export policy on the sending router that prevents those routes from being exported to my neighbor (the receiving router), isn't the end result the same (not having a consistent interarea routing table), introducing the potential for routing loops and dest unreachables?
My thought is that because JUNOS sees received routes in their original form before applying import policies, it knows what they look like in their original form and thus won't manipulate OSPF routes with import policies, whereas a router receiving OSPF routes that were already manipulated on the sending end via an export policy are received in their manipulated form already and it doesn't know any better. If that is the case, is it ill-advisable to configure OSPF export policies that block routes?