*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.
In addition to the system settings, the user might wish to have some specific settings for his own account. To achieve this in UNIX, at the end of the login process, the operating system executes a file at the user level, if present. This file is called profile file.