Gutsy and renumbered network interfaces?

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Wednesday 20 June 2007, Andreas Schildbach wrote:
> Does anyone know why since a recent "apt-get dist-upgrade" on Gutsy my
> Ethernet is now mapped to eth3 (was: eth0) and my WLAN to eth2 (was: eth1)?
>
> Is this a bug, or is it intentional?

I'm not running Gutsy yet, but could it have anything to do with /etc/iftab?  
This one bit me recently with VMs, where I copied a VM and suddenly I had no 
eth0 but an eth1, because the MAC address had changed.
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