Networking :: Can Eth Device Names Be Correlated To Physical Port?

I am building a custom RedHat+<our-software> installer iso for our own appliance. I am using Red Hat 5.4. The appliances has two on-board eth interfaces. On the back panel of the appliance, these ports are marked 1 and 2. When I install RH, I find the device names assigned such as eth0/eth1 are arbitrary. I understand this is to be expected with kernels 2.6+. Most of our customers connect their eth cables to the port marked 1 on the back and assume they should configure eth0 to make the device reachable. However, sometimes port 1 gets assigned "eth1". This is not a blocking issue, but its going to confuse our customers and we wanted to make it easier on them.

From reading online discussion boards, I know HOW to switch the assignment of the eth names. However, what I am do not know is whether I need to switch them at all. So I have two questions
1) Is there anyway for me to tell which eth mac corresponds to which port on the back? Since they are soldered on the motherboard and not movable, I would think there would be some way to figure out that x mac address corresponds to the upper port (marked '1' etc).
2) Is there a way to tell this by running a linux command? We need to do this automatically so I need to be able to figure it out at install time from the kickstart post-install or similar.