For maintenance scenarios where a router must remain operational but should not be used as a transit path for OSPF traffic, Junos OS uses theoverloadfunctionality.

OSPF Overload (Option B):When you enable overload under protocols ospf, the router advertises its own Link-State Advertisements (LSAs) with amaximum metric (65535)for all of its transit links.

Traffic Diversion:Because OSPF uses the Shortest Path First (SPF) algorithm to find the lowest-cost path, other routers in the network will see the overloaded router as an extremely high-cost path. They will calculate alternate routes, effectivelymoving transit traffic off the routerwhile still allowing management traffic directedtothe router's own interfaces.

Timeout Options:You can configure this to be permanent or set a timeout so that the router automatically resumes normal metric advertisements after a set period.