Release notes & project journal.

PiNT Live v0.6 · LLDP/CDP neighbour discovery

1. 01
   Collect

   PiNT Live collects detailed LLDP and CDP output from Ruckus ICX switches and parses the local port, neighbour name, management IP, remote port, platform and capabilities.

2. 02
   Enrich

   Neighbour protocol, device, management IP, remote port and platform columns are added to each switch worksheet. They work independently of the optional ARP-list enrichment path.

3. 03
   Verify

   Both neighbour commands are retained in optional RAW worksheets, so the original CLI output remains available when checking a result or tuning parsing for a particular firmware release.

Net result: local port → neighbouring device → remote port in the same workbook as the rest of the site documentation.

Built on the v0.5 reliability release

The previous release made multi-switch polling resilient to individual device failures, added one clean retry for transient timeouts and introduced cooperative stopping. It also added Ruckus LAG discovery, a lighter results table for larger sites, and linked Main, RAW and LAG worksheets with Back to Summary navigation.

PiNT Live v0.4 · Multi-Vendor Polling

1. 01
   Per-switch vendor

   Every switch row in the sidebar gets a ⚙ cog button. Click it to pick the vendor (Ruckus / Cisco IOS / HP-Aruba) and — if shared credentials are turned off — set per-switch username and password overrides. The status line during polling now shows the vendor in flight: Connecting to 192.168.1.1 (Ruckus)…

2. 02
   Bulk configuration modal

   A new Configure all switches… button opens a modal with shared credentials at the top and a per-switch table of IP / Vendor / Username / Password underneath. A Use same credentials for all switches checkbox covers the common case; uncheck it to override per row.

3. 03
   Duplicate-IP guard

   If the same IP or host appears twice in the list, PiNT Live now flags it with a Yes/No warning before the poll runs. Defaults to No so a stray Enter doesn't push through and produce duplicate sheets in the export.

The old global Vendor and Username/Password sections are gone — that state now lives on the bulk modal (shared) or each row (per-switch). The sidebar is noticeably less busy as a result.

PiNT Desktop v1.5 · Passive mDNS

The mDNS browser used to follow a captured response with an active resolve step to fill in the sender's IP. v1.5 simply reads the unicast source address out of the IP layer of the response packet (pkt[IP].src) — no extra queries, no separate Resolve IPs button, no hostname-resolution chain. The UI is one button cleaner and the network footprint is one round-trip smaller per device. Windows EXE builds are now produced automatically via a GitHub Actions workflow.

The problem

PiNT Live can SSH into a switch and pull a per-port MAC table all day long, but a row that reads Port 12 → AABB.CCDD.EEFF doesn't tell you what's plugged in. To turn that into useful documentation you need IPs and, ideally, hostnames — and those live in the ARP table, not the switch.

The new workflow

1. 01
   PiNT Desktop v1.4

   Sweep each VLAN with the ARP scanner and export a flat IP / MAC / Hostname XLSX — one file per VLAN, in the exact schema PiNT Live's Load ARP List… sidebar consumes.

2. 02
   PiNT Live v0.3.0-rc2

   Accept those files via multi-select. Hold Ctrl/Shift, pick one per VLAN, and they merge into a single deduplicated ARP set — last-write-wins on IP, but blank hostnames never overwrite populated ones.

3. 03
   Export

   Each per-switch tab gains IP (from ARP) and Hostname (from ARP) columns sitting right next to the MAC column. The summary tab is unchanged.

Net result: Port → MAC → IP → Hostname as a single round-trip, with two small tools instead of one heavyweight platform.

What's next

PiNT LiveScan — a Pi-native ARP collector — is the natural follow-up. Drop a Pi onto each VLAN, let it sweep continuously, and feed PiNT Live without ever opening a laptop. That's the planned card on the roadmap and the long-term home for the ARP-collection step.