This read-only Counter32 object tallies packets dropped specifically because the average queue length exceeded the max-depth threshold, representing the more severe tail-drop behavior in WRED's congestion response. A significant count here indicates the queue is regularly reaching its most congested state rather than being managed by the gentler random early-drop mechanism. For example, an admin seeing cwredStatMaxFilteredPkts climb sharply would treat that as a stronger sign of sustained overload on that queue than a rise in cwredStatRandomFilteredPkts alone.