> Source: [sk180234](https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk180234)

# sk180234 - Check Point PRO Reports says there are TX drops on the Threat Emulation appliance

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Solution ID | sk180234 |
| Date Created | 2022-11-27 |
| Last Modified | 2022-11-27 |
| Technical Level | Advanced |
| Products | Security Gateway |
| Versions | R81.10 (EOS), R81 (EOS) |
| OS | Gaia |

## Symptoms

- * Check Point PRO Report for a Threat Emulation appliance contains this "System" alarm:

  *TX Drops detected on machine interfaces*
* Output of the "`ifconfig`" command (or other commands that can show traffic statistics on interfaces) shows TX drops on "`vm-if<X>`" interfaces.

  Example:

  ```
  
  vm-if0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
              inet addr:169.254.0.1  Bcast:169.254.0.3  Mask:255.255.255.252
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:3257813 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:15043329 errors:0 dropped:9790 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
              RX bytes:925445617 (882.5 MiB)  TX bytes:20330914150 (18.9 GiB)
  vm-if1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
              inet addr:169.254.0.5  Bcast:169.254.0.7  Mask:255.255.255.252
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:12684490 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:25559417 errors:0 dropped:145243 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
              RX bytes:1354990249 (1.2 GiB)  TX bytes:36949944285 (34.4 GiB) 
  ```

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