Dropped Packets and Martian Sources?????

I have been scanning through my logs and are receiving some weird numbers...

Dropped 2491 packets on interface eth0

What is the normal packet loss for a server? I have never had packet loss so high...

And what exactly is the martian source and ipt_unclean?

5 Time(s): ipt_unclean: (embedded packet) DF set and offset=0, MF=8192.
3 Time(s): ipt_unclean: (embedded packet) Embedded fragment.
2 Time(s): ipt_unclean: (embedded packet) Truncated fragment 1452 long.
2 Time(s): ipt_unclean: (embedded packet) Truncated fragment 1460 long.
1 Time(s): ipt_unclean: (embedded packet) Truncated fragment 343 long.
1 Time(s): ipt_unclean: (embedded packet) Truncated fragment 348 long.
2 Time(s): ipt_unclean: (embedded packet) Truncated fragment 481 long.
1 Time(s): ipt_unclean: (embedded packet) Truncated fragment 531 long.
2 Time(s): ipt_unclean: TCP flags bad: 5
2 Time(s): ipt_unclean: TCP reserved bits not zero
267 Time(s): ll header: 00:30:48:52:1c:4a:00:d0:01:3c:84:0a:08:00
25 Time(s): martian source 66.55....... from 127.0.0.1, on dev eth0
16 Time(s): martian source 66.55....... from 127.0.0.1, on dev eth0
21 Time(s): martian source 66.55....... from 127.0.0.1, on dev eth0
21 Time(s): martian source 66.55....... from 127.0.0.1, on dev eth0
14 Time(s): martian source 66.55....... from 127.0.0.1, on dev eth0
18 Time(s): martian source 66.55...... from 127.0.0.1, on dev eth0
16 Time(s): martian source 66.55....... from 127.0.0.1, on dev eth0
25 Time(s): martian source 66.55...... from 127.0.0.1, on dev eth0
22 Time(s): martian source 66.55....... from 127.0.0.1, on dev eth0
22 Time(s): martian source 66.55....... from 127.0.0.1, on dev eth0
24 Time(s): martian source 66.55....... from 127.0.0.1, on dev eth0
16 Time(s): martian source 66.55....... from 127.0.0.1, on dev eth0
27 Time(s): martian source 66.55...... from 127.0.0.1, on dev eth0
1 Time(s): possible SYN flooding on port 80. Sending cookies.


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