Switching eth cards

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 19:22:07 +0200,
  Przemyslaw Gawronski <pgg at tanren.pl> wrote:
> Hi, how can I switch my eth cards, so the one that is recognived as
> eth0 will be eth1 and the eth1 will become eth0 ?

Have you tried doing it with the network configuration tool? I am pretty sure
I remember seeing that you could bind a specific interface (eth?) to a
specific hardware device (including specifying the mac address of the
hardware).