Uses ifconfig to return a dictionary of interfaces with various information
    about each (up/down state, ip address, netmask, and hwaddr)

def _interfaces_ifconfig(out):
    """
    Uses ifconfig to return a dictionary of interfaces with various information
    about each (up/down state, ip address, netmask, and hwaddr)
    """
    ret = dict()

    piface = re.compile(r'^([^\s:]+)')
    pmac = re.compile('.*?(?:HWaddr|ether|address:|lladdr) ([0-9a-fA-F:]+)')
    pip = re.compile(r'.*?(?:inet addr:|inet )(.*?)\s')
    pip6 = re.compile('.*?(?:inet6 addr: (.*?)/|inet6 )([0-9a-fA-F:]+)')
    pmask = re.compile(r'.*?(?:Mask:|netmask )(?:((?:0x)?[0-9a-fA-F]{8})|([\d\.]+))')
    pmask6 = re.compile(r'.*?(?:inet6 addr: [0-9a-fA-F:]+/(\d+)|prefixlen (\d+)).*')
    pupdown = re.compile('UP')
    pbcast = re.compile(r'.*?(?:Bcast:|broadcast )([\d\.]+)')

    groups = re.compile('\r?\n(?=\\S)').split(out)
    for group in groups:
        data = dict()
        iface = ''
        updown = False
        for line in group.splitlines():
            miface = piface.match(line)
            mmac = pmac.match(line)
            mip = pip.match(line)
            mip6 = pip6.match(line)
            mupdown = pupdown.search(line)
            if miface:
                iface = miface.group(1)
            if mmac:
                data['hwaddr'] = mmac.group(1)
            if mip:
                if 'inet' not in data:
                    data['inet'] = list()
                addr_obj = dict()
                addr_obj['address'] = mip.group(1)
                mmask = pmask.match(line)
                if mmask:
                    if mmask.group(1):
                        mmask = _number_of_set_bits_to_ipv4_netmask(
                            int(mmask.group(1), 16))
                    else:
                        mmask = mmask.group(2)
                    addr_obj['netmask'] = mmask
                mbcast = pbcast.match(line)
                if mbcast:
                    addr_obj['broadcast'] = mbcast.group(1)
                data['inet'].append(addr_obj)
            if mupdown:
                updown = True
            if mip6:
                if 'inet6' not in data:
                    data['inet6'] = list()
                addr_obj = dict()
                addr_obj['address'] = mip6.group(1) or mip6.group(2)
                mmask6 = pmask6.match(line)
                if mmask6:
                    addr_obj['prefixlen'] = mmask6.group(1) or mmask6.group(2)
                data['inet6'].append(addr_obj)
        data['up'] = updown
        ret[iface] = data
        del data
    return ret