Your program can be simplified to: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

################

my @AoH;

open my $fh, '<', 'interface.txt' or die "Cannot open 'interface.txt' 
+because: $!";

while ( <$fh> ) {
    if ( / ^ ( \w+ \d ) : \s+ flags= ( \S+ ) /x ) {
        push @AoH, { interface => $1, flags => $2 };
        }
    elsif ( / ( ether | media | inet | status ) :? \s+ ( \S+ ) /x ) {
        $AoH[ -1 ]{ $1 } = $2;
        }
    }

close $fh;
print Dumper \@AoH;

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