Reports the number of routes for which every alternate next-hop protects against failure of the primary next-hop node itself, not just the link to it. This is the stronger form of IP FRR protection, so admins prioritize increasing this count on critical paths since it covers both link and router failures at the next hop. An admin designing a resilient core would check that critical routes appear in ipFrrNodeProtectedRoutes rather than only ipFrrLinkProtectedRoutes, since a full router outage is a more common failure mode than a single link cut.