Local Management Interface
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Software enhancements to frame relay specifications, providing the ability to integrate with a keep alive mechanism (verifying that DLCI's work), multicast mechanism (gives the network server its DLCI), Multicast DLCI, global addressing, and status mechanism. SMI data rids within the customer data pirt of the frame rela frame. More advanced LMI applications are called CLLM - which adds the ability to report congestion control for individual DLCI's