This read-only INTEGER counts packets received from RADIUS servers overall that were discarded even though no error was detected, before the specific source RADIUS server could even be identified, for example because the client had already given up waiting for that reply. An admin monitors this global counter as an early sign of network-wide RADIUS response delays. For example, a steadily climbing gsInDiscards count across many login attempts suggests requests are timing out network-wide before replies can even be matched to a server.