You can easily display dropped and total transmitted packets with netstat for eth0:
# netstat --interfaces=eth0
Output:
Kernel
Interface table Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg
eth0 1500 0 2040929 0 0 0 3850539 0 0 0 BMRU