Duplicate Drop Detected

The Symax 802.3 protocol specification defines the actions to be taken when a duplicate drop number is detected on a Symax network. This involves purging all outstanding messages and then continuously sending Symax CONNECT messages every 5 seconds until the device is shut down and restarted. The symax driver implements a variation of this in that it does send CONNECT messages every 5 seconds and fails all scheduled read/write requests for 5 minutes. The variation is that after the 5 minutes has elapsed, it attempts communicate normally again. This saves having to restart the driver or  MacroView  system manually. If a duplicate drop is detected again, the driver will go back into the duplicate detected failure state immediately.