Could this be a NIC error?

From: Tommy Sundstrøm (tommy_at_h-nett.no)
Date: 07/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 23:15:42 +0200

When running the ifconfig, I get a lot of errors and dropped packets.
When storing files, it takes up tp 5sec before it starts, and 5sec between
files

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
          inet addr:10.0.0.1 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:452160736 errors:10396 dropped:3480 overruns:10396
frame:0
          TX packets:644117782 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:18 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:1412142129 (1346.7 Mb) TX bytes:2180471898 (2079.4 Mb)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0xa000

tia 

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