Vista - WMI driving me crazy

I don't know but in my personal opinion WMI seems very unreliable. I have a
script that uses Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration to return all the network
adapters in a machine. I then search for an IP that starts with a specific
number for each adapter and count how many adapters start with that number.
The script has been working very well, but I just hit a machine today where
it returned 6 adapters that started with the value I searched for. I
outputted the list to see what the script was finding and it found 6 adapters
that were all the same. That is only one occurrence, but there have been
quite a few results like that in the past couple of weeks.
Where does WMI pull it's info from?

Those are pulled from the actual network adapter configurations as exposed
by Windows itself. Individual adapters will have multiple configurations
associated with them, but if they are absolutely identical, you may be
seeing an underlying problem with the system. Could you show us the code you
use, and what looks identical?

When you show us the results, you may want to retrieve description
associated with each NAC also.


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