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From Net-SNMP Wiki
The protocol definition specifies a "minimum maximum" packet size (484 bytes for UDP), which all systems must support, but does not attempt to define an upper bound for this maximum size. This is left to each individual implementation.
The UCD software used a fixed size buffer of 1472 bytes to hold the encoded packet, so all requests and responses had to fit within this. The Net-SNMP releases handle packet buffers rather differently, and are not subject to the same fixed restrictions.
