On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:47:42 +0000, Alex Pimperton <alex at erus dot co dot uk> wrote:
> 
> The packets that are dropped are all part of one protocol (dc++), yet
> the packets being dropped don't seem to affect the transfer speed or
> reliability of the application.
> 

Sounds like this (and p2p is known to make this happen more because it
uses so many packets). 
http://m0n0.ch/wall/docbook/faq-legit-traffic-dropped.html

That wouldn't be why it's dropping legit sessions though.  I don't
know on that.

-Chris