well, I just recently got my LFS system up and running and so far have only added OpenSSL, OpenSSH, Lynx, and nano.

For some reason i'm not able to see the "outside world". Any computer on my network can access the LFS box and the LFS box can ping and access any computer on the network except the outside world and the router.

If I try pinging 192.168.0.1 (my router) somethign realy strange happens...

As you can see I ping the router and get a reply from the same box I am pinging from. Me and someone on the LFS IRC channel were trying to figure this out, but ended up completely stumped. He verfied my hosts and resolv.conf file and at the moment it appears that those fiels are fine. Anyways, any help woudl be appareciated, and in the meantime i'll keep looking for an answere. Below is the contents of variouse files that may be usefull for troubleshooting this problem.

hosts
resolv.conf
ipv4
NOTE: Enabling Gateway causes problems ;-)

I also personaly added a host.conf file just in case with the following contents...
Anyways, thanks in advanced.

Have you tried:

onBOOT=yes
SERVICE=ipv4-static
IP=192.168.0.105
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
PREFIX=24
BROADCAST=192.168.0.255

Also, is your nameserver really at 192.168.0.1 ?
I get my nameservers from my ISP.

Well, changing boradcast to 192.168.0.255 fixed the mysteriouse problem.

I can ping my router, 192.168.0.1, and get a reply from the router and not from the computer i'm pinging from. Also, if I try to ping something like yahoo.com it dosent' just say Uknown Host

However, it will attempt to ping something like yahoo.com, but will just keep saying Network Unreachable. However, it did resolve the domain into a IP correctly. So, for example...

So, it is resolving the hostname, but can't access the "outside world"

As for the nameserver stuff. the answere is no...a router does the work for you...it knows the nameservers and it redirects all the requests...atleast i'm pretty sure. Anyways, just to eliminate a posible cause, I tried using both of my ISP's nameservers...I just got Uknown Host while pinging. Plus, all my other computers are set up where 192.168.0.1 is the nameserver. Also, I will soon be setting up my own nameserver.

So, any ideas?

EDIT: By the way, once again there is no gateway :-P If I put a gateway it just results in anoying errors

You say you have other computers on the network?
Are they going thru the same router?
Are they communicating with the outside world?
What annoying errors are you getting when you put
in the gateway? There may be some useful info in the
error messages which may point to the solution to your
problem.

Problem solved.

After correcting my other mistakes and uncommenting the gateway everything works fine. Can surf the web with lynx and ping the outside world.

By the way....the gateway, nameserver, etc. all points to 192.168.0.1, my router. ;-) With the exception of the Broadcast IP.

Anyways, thanks a lot for your help.

I'm glad you got it going.