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Why link-state ACK is used in OSPF? What is the role of re-transmission timeout here?
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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.