Looking at System State - Errors on the Dashboard page I note that a large number of errors are reported under eth0 / Recieved - Drops

 

I am not aware of any functionality problems, but have noticed that the errors are increasing on playing back media from my shares.

 

Is this likely to be network card problem or cabling problem?

Network drops tend to be caused by congestion.  The number of errors by itself doesn't matter.  What matters is the percentage of drops vs total packets

 

ifconfig eth0

will tell the whole story

Thanks for your reply, this is the result of the command

I have run run ethtool eth0, with the attached results

 

This reports drv probe link?

 

I am using standard Intel gigabit NIC

Squid, when you get a chance please can you have a look at my test results

Squid, when you get a chance please can you have a look at my test results

 

Dropped packets are NOT a problem in 99.99% of all cases.    I have two Intel NIC's in my servers because of real operational issues with the on-board RealTek NIC's.  Both of them have dropped packets on the receive side.  (134,863,506 drops in about 28 days on my Media Server!  Most of them occur when streaming BluRay ISO's to my Netgear media players.) Unless, you have another identifiable issue that is causing an operational problem, I wouldn't be worried.

 

If you google dropped packets, you will find that most of the time, there is no solution and the 'problem' is usually a non-event.

Squid, when you get a chance please can you have a look at my test results

0.14% dropped packets.  (Or, in other words 99.85% of packets were not dropped)

 

I think that if I was in school and got 99.85% on a test I'd be pretty satisfied.

Thanks for your replies, thats good to know

 

I am not having any problems, but saw the error log and was curious