This read-only counter tracks how many times an in-progress authentication was aborted because the client itself sent a new EAPOL-Start message mid-process, restarting the exchange. An administrator watches this to identify supplicants that repeatedly restart authentication before it completes, often a sign of a misconfigured or impatient client-side 802.1X implementation. For example, a client with a very short internal EAPOL-Start retry timer could rack up this counter by restarting faster than the server can respond.