eth1 getting moved to eth0

[Bill Nottingham]

Michal Jaegermann (michal at harddata.com) said: 
> Another possibility is to use 'nameif' and your own names for
> network interfaces instead of eth0 and eth1.  See 'man nameif'
> for details.  The catch is that you cannot rename interfaces
> after they were brought up, so you have drop in your own startup
> script which runs early enough (it would be nice if a support for
> that was already present) and I have no idea how various 'sysconfig'
> tools will react on "strange" names.  But you have an editor.

Actually, if you do:

alias frobozz e100

and have:

DEVICE=frobozz

in the ifcfg file, the standard scripts will rename it to whatever
you like.

Bill