Using awk to parse for conditions over multiple lines? (ifconfig output)

I'm trying to parse ifconfig output with awk.

Right now my script is:

# Setup

ifconfig > ip.txt

ans=$(cat ip.txt | awk '$1 == "inet" {print $2}')

#output

echo "Here are your IPs:"

echo"$ans"

Output:

Here are your IPs:

192.168.1.1
192.168.2.1

What I want is an output more like

Here are your IPs: 

eth0 192.168.1.1
wlan0 192.168.2.1

But awk only parses by line, which is why I'm using inet as the $1 identifier for awk. As you know, ifconfig has multiple lines between the interface name and the IP address, so I can't increase that $2 to however many words away the address is.

I think the solution has to do with using RS or possibly using sed instead of awk. No luck using RS to change how awk sees lines.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Well, if really wanna use ifconfig, you can do this:

# Setup
ifconfig > ip.txt

# Parse the output
ans=$(cat ip.txt | awk '/^[^ ]/{iface=$1} /inet / {print iface, $2}')

# Output
echo "Here are your IPs:"
echo "$ans"