moot writes:

I have no idea what led you to the conclusion that the code performs session management.
this, from OP:
,,,bunch of code that needs to determine currently available network interfaces

moot writes:

The actual name of the interface is secondary; it's the IP and netmask that are more important.
And each is a different level of abstration, a different level of complexity. The deaper you go into the the layers the more information you have to provide and the less isolation you have from the enviroment. The distictions between layers are not "secondary"; they are the core of the problem.

To rephrase my original post. If we're testing a database application we provide an artificial dataset for an environment. Why wouldn't we provide an artificial environment for a network applicaiton?

I'm sorry I misunderstood your OP and I know I'm not addressing your core issue of automation but please don't shoot the messenger. As you said yourself:"the target is somewhat vague".

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In reply to Re^3: IO::Interface and System-dependent Testing by starbolin
in thread IO::Interface and System-dependent Testing by moot

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