Many network drops - Dashboard/System Status/Errors/Network/eth0/Drops (Receive)

[nia]

Hi.

 

I was looking at the bottom-left part of the dashboard page at:

 

Dashboard/System Status/{Errors}/Network/eth0/Drops (Recieve)

 

When choosing "Errors", I see under eth0 - Receive:  Drops: 562039. All other numbers are at 0.

 

What does it mean, and should I be concerned?

 

Version 6.1.6 running 58 days. Diagnostics attached.

tower-diagnostics-20160221-1601.zip

[Squid]

Hi.

 

I was looking at the bottom-left part of the dashboard page at:

 

Dashboard/System Status/{Errors}/Network/eth0/Drops (Recieve)

 

When choosing "Errors", I see under eth0 - Receive:  Drops: 562039. All other numbers are at 0.

 

What does it mean, and should I be concerned?

 

Version 6.1.6 running 58 days. Diagnostics attached.

Tons of reasons for drops to happen.  (Cabling, interference, bad / dirty ports, collisions, congestion, etc)

 

In your case, the system has dropped 0.02% of packets.  Nothing to worry about

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_loss

[nia]

Hi Squid.

 

Thanks a lot - just seemed like a really high number at first glance. 

 

I'll stop worrying