Reports, as a formatted string, the current rate at which the gateway is dropping packets in drops per second, again a live rate rather than a cumulative count. A live drop-rate dashboard value like this is what lets an admin catch an active event, such as a volumetric scan or attack being absorbed, as it's happening, since a sudden jump in this rate is immediately visible without needing to poll fwDropped twice and do the math. Example: fwDroppedTotalRate jumping from a baseline of '20 pps' to '8000 pps' in real time is the kind of live signal that would trigger an immediate look at what's currently hitting the gateway, well before any cumulative counter-based alert would fire.