Problem Kernel: 2.6.39.3 - ethernet e1000 dropping bogus packetsifconfig bond0

[Martin Palenik]

Kernel version 2.6.39.3

ifconfig is reporting thousands of dropped packets on a bonded ethernet 
connection.

This does not happen on earlier linux kernels such as 2.6.32

ethernet driver is intel e1000

Gnu C                  4.4.3
Gnu make               3.81
binutils               2.20.1
util-linux             2.17.2
mount                  support
module-init-tools      3.11.1
e2fsprogs              1.41.11
PPP                    2.4.5
Linux C Library        2.11.1
Dynamic linker (ldd)   2.11.1
Procps                 3.2.8
Net-tools              1.60
Kbd                    1.15
Sh-utils               7.4
wireless-tools         30
Modules Loaded         vboxnetadp vboxnetflt vboxdrv bonding joydev 
w83627ehf hwmon_vid coretemp intel_agp lp intel_gtt parport usbhid hid 
psmouse serio_raw ses enclosure ahci e1000e libahci

These drops seem to occur when there is little traffic.  If I do a 
tcpdump -i  bond0  no packets are reported dropped in ifconfig nor in 
tcpipdump.  So it seems to be bogus dropped packets reported by ifconfig.

Thank you for your time.
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