I believe I found the core of the problem and it exists in /etc/udev/rules.d/7-persistent-net.rules.

I am still unsure of a permanent fix though,
removing the file gives a temporary one

So on my raspberry pi the network interface was set as eth0. I created an image, put the new image on a new pi and the networking port got set up as eth7. I switched the image to a different pi and the networking port got set up as eth3.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what is going on?