This 64-bit counter tracks the cumulative number of outbound packets dropped while being processed by the device across all current and previous remote-access sessions; note the source MIB's description text mirrors the inbound drop counter's wording almost verbatim, likely an authoring inconsistency in the original MIB rather than a claim that outbound drops occur during receive processing. Regardless of the wording, operationally this is the object an admin checks to see whether outbound traffic destined for remote users is being discarded by the device itself. A climbing value here alongside user reports of dropped VPN connections or poor outbound throughput would point toward the device itself, rather than the internal network or the users' own connections, as the source of the loss.