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For questions about network routers, devices that forward data packets between computer networks, commonly at the network layer (layer 3) of the OSI model.

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Is the MTU of Ethernet still 1500 Bytes?

So basically do the modern routers in the internet still use 1500 as the MTU of Ethernet? or the 1500 Byte was for the old days? What I'm asking here is what is the MTU of Ethernet in modern Networks …
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Do we send ack frames in ethernet? if not then how does a router know if its neighbors are d...

if it doesn't : then how does a router know whether its neighbors are down or not? if it does : then is it cumulative ack with an ack timer or one ack per received frame? … I'm asking this because in Link state algorithm i read somewhere that the blackhole problem is solved by the router because it will eventually realize that its neighbor is down, but how can it know …
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