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I assume you mean "dropped due to *no *socket" which means your seeing 
requests to a port which isn't open, possibly due to being port scanned?

On 27/10/2014 11:00, Tiago Felipe wrote:
> Good afternoon!
>
> I have seen "dropped due to the socket" on multiple servers with
> Freebsd, this case is a Release 10.
> # Netstat -s -s
> ...
> 4614884 dropped due to the socket
> ...
>
> In this case the current flow is 700mbits download and 80mbits upload,
> averaging 130kpps.
>
> I've done many changes in sysctl.conf and loader.conf, swapped hardware
> and have not had many improvements.
>
> Can anyone tell me the reason? I'm looking for it to weeks, but still no
> result.
>
>
> Thank you so much.
>
>