. "The number of inbound packets that were chosen to be\ndiscarded even though no errors had been detected to\nprevent their being deliverable to a higher-layer\nprotocol. One possible reason for discarding such a\npacket could be to free up buffer space.\n\nDiscontinuities in the value of this counter can occur\nat re-initialization of the management system and at\nother times as indicated by the value of\n'discontinuity-time'." . "Status : DEPRECATED" . . "Reference : RFC 2863: The Interfaces Group MIB - ifInDiscards" . .