How does the duplicate filter work?
If you have 2 devices, A and B, and each are sending duplicate packets but are received interleaved, the question is whether all 4 packets come through or just 2. For example consider the sequence:
A
B
A
B
Short answer is 2, but that is
dependent on a couple things. Whenever a packet is received it is placed
in a buffer for a period of time as defined by the DF duplicate filter
command (default is 5 seconds). Whenever a new packet arrives, it is
checked against the stored packets in the buffer and will be ignored if
it is found to be a duplicate. After the duplicate filter time expires
for a given packet, it is removed from the buffer and can be received
again. The duplicate filter can be turned off by setting DF to 0000 in
which case the example above would result in 4 packets coming through.