1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/plugins/check_snmp.c b/plugins/check_snmp.c
index da9638c..88b8f38 100644
--- a/plugins/check_snmp.c
+++ b/plugins/check_snmp.c
@@ -1207,8 +1207,9 @@ print_help (void)
         printf ("    %s\n", _("Separates output on multiple OID requests"));
 
         printf (UT_CONN_TIMEOUT, DEFAULT_SOCKET_TIMEOUT);
+        printf ("    %s\n", _("NOTE the final timeout value is calculated using this formula: timeout_interval * retries + 5"));
         printf (" %s\n", "-e, --retries=INTEGER");
-        printf ("    %s\n", _("Number of retries to be used in the requests"));
+        printf ("    %s%i%s\n", _("Number of retries to be used in the requests (default: "), DEFAULT_RETRIES, _(")"));
 
         printf (" %s\n", "-O, --perf-oids");
         printf ("    %s\n", _("Label performance data with OIDs instead of --label's"));