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@@ -22,7 +22,9 @@ class SnmpEngine:
See :RFC:`3412#section-2.1` (where it is termed *The Dispatcher*).
With PySNMP design, `SnmpEngine` is the only stateful object, all SNMP
- v3 operations require an instance of SNMP engine.
+ v3 operations require an instance of SNMP engine. Users do not normally
+ request services directly from `SnmpEngine`, but pass it around to
+ other PySNMP interfaces.
It is possible to run multiple instances of `SnmpEngine` in the
application. In a multithreaded environment, each thread that