Cannot ping localhost

[Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah <napi@cs.indiana.edu>]

I have a diskless client running kernel 2.2.14 that manages to boot up.
But it cannot ping localhost.  What could be the problem?

Thanks.

Napi
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