Description of problem:

1) It hardcodes devices in the ethX space. Network devices can have arbitrary names, and due to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ConsistentNetworkDeviceNaming, will have
different names in Fedora 15.

2) It hardcodes the specific device names, such that it will only read 'lo' and 'eth0-4'. What if you have more than five ethernet devices? What if due to hardware changes, you merely have eth4-7?

3) It does all this by popen()ing ifconfig.

I would think this could be made a lot shorter, simpler, and more correct by just opening and reading /proc/net/dev.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

papi-4.1.2.1

How reproducible:

By visual inspection.