Scan network interfaces once at startup #10208

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markdown_lint	4s
Typos Check	6s
Lints and doc tests on ubuntu-latest	58s
Unit tests on ubuntu-latest	23m 24s
Lints and doc tests on windows-latest	3m 39s
Unit tests on windows-latest	33m 43s
Lints and doc tests on macos-13	2m 13s
Unit tests on macos-13	13m 2s
Lints and doc tests on macos-14	1m 30s
Unit tests on macos-14	13m 26s
Memory leak checks	0s
CI status checks	1s
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