*John C. Reilly, American actor. *Edward G. Robinson, American film actor ('G.' as in Goldenberg, his given surname). *George C. Scott, American actor. *Peter R. de Vries, Dutch crime reporter with his own television program, and also a politician. *John Q. Adams, 6th president of the United States.
Found out what it was. Red Hat 9.0 looks in the /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default directory and if the same ifcfg-ethX isn't there, then it could overwrite some of the network settings. I added the ifcfg-ethx to this directory and haven't had any problems.
The automatically generated connection string by the model in the .config file is Entity Framework connection string wihich needs the metadata and provider name and the standard connection string for ADO.NET.