Topics
  • Most Recent Stories
  • Trending Stories
  • Miscellaneous
  • New
  • SAP
  • Cisco
  • oracle
  • Microsoft
  • CCIE
  • CCNA
  • Education
  • CCNP
  • Networking
  • Eccouncil
  • Route
  • Routing
  • Switch
  • OSPF
  • EIGRP
  • Job
  • Firewall
  • VPN
Why link-state ACK is used in OSPF? What is the role of re-transmission timeout here?
  • Total 3 Answers
  • 2753
author

OSPF is a reliable protocol and generates Ack packet for DBD, LSR, LSU.

If any packet mismatch or missed than router again request for it using LSR and other routers will re-transmit the packet again.