This counter is the device-wide total number of SCTP packets received, excluding retransmissions; note that the object's own description text literally says sent, a known inconsistency in this MIB, but the object name and its place in this table make clear it counts received datagrams. Comparing it against ceSctpStatChunksRec tells an admin the average chunks-per-packet ratio across all peers, revealing whether remote stacks are bundling many small signaling messages per packet or sending one chunk per packet inefficiently. A ratio near one chunk per datagram suggests small, unbundled messages, while a ratio above five suggests peers are efficiently packing several SCTP chunks into each IP packet.