This read-only Counter32 object tallies packets dropped specifically because the average queue length exceeded the min-depth threshold and were selected by WRED's random early-drop policy, as opposed to being dropped outright. A rising count here reflects WRED's designed behavior of proactively signaling congestion before it becomes severe. For example, an admin seeing cwredStatRandomFilteredPkts increasing steadily, while cwredStatMaxFilteredPkts stays low, would recognize WRED is doing its intended job of gently easing congestion rather than the queue reaching the severe max-threshold drop zone.