> From: Bart Van Assche [mailto:bart.vanass...@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:05 PM

> An UDP packet can contain at most 65527 bytes data. UDP packets that
> do not fit in a single Ethernet packet (max. 1500 bytes when not using
> GbE jumbo frames) get fragmented over multiple Ethernet packets.

        ...and fragmentation is something you want to avoid, especially in 
mission critical applications like management.  One should always try to keep 
SNMP packets below 1400 bytes.

> See
> also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol.

        Wikipedia as a technical reference?!  Please...


Mike

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