eth0 and eth1

[Wayne Dyer <dwdyer austin rr com>]

This may seem like a silly question, but does eth0 have to be initialized
before eth1?

In order to work around Roadrunner's brain-dead DHCP server, which would
NOT respond to my bootp requests for some reason, I switched connections.  
Formerly I had eth0 on the internal network, set to come up at boot, and
eth1 conencted to the cable modem, set to come up manually (it's a hostname
thing).  So I change my scripts, swap the cables, and everything worked
fine, but on a reboot, I found that eth1's initialization was being
deferred.  Doublechecked, all looks well, and I can bring it up manually
after eth0 is up.

-W-