>I've /never/ seen RHEL/CentOS or any of its predecessors renumber >ethernet ports on a working system.. Yeah, I have never seen it "re"number either? >I've seen it number them >backwards, such that eth0 was the port labeled '1' outside the chassis >and eth1 was port '0', but it was extremely consistent about this (one >specific case of this I remember is RHEL2.1 or 3 on a Intel SE7501WV2 >dual xeon board). I've had a pile of different RH linux configurations >running on various servers for 10 or more years. Here is a good explanation about this: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=115&prodSeriesId=254896&prodTypeId=15351&objectID=c01430330 jlc