This read-only gauge counts packets detected out of order via the control-word sequence number that could not be reordered or did not fit in the jitter buffer, and were therefore dropped. An admin monitors it to see reordering events severe enough to actually cause data loss on the pseudowire, as distinct from the successfully-recovered count in hwTdmPsnPerfCurrentPktsReorder. For example, a pseudowire suffering from a badly congested or unstable packet path might show climbing counts here alongside audible or bit-error impact on the TDM circuit.