*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 Network Administration Tool (system-config-network) is an easy way to make changes to the various network interface configuration files (refer to Chapter 14, Network Configuration for detailed instructions on using this tool). However, it is also possible to manually edit the configuration files for a given network interface.