I recently changed my network setup from DHCP so I went about giving my machines static IP's and did the same to my RHAT 7.1 server. But now I cannot get to the internet. I can ping inside my network but not outside, and it's not DNS because I can't ping by ip either. If I do ifconfig I see the IP i gave the machine. I also ran linuxconf to setup networking but that did not work either. Also, when I look at my routes I see the following.

[root@localhost /]# /sbin/route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo

also when I try to add a gw route I get.

gw: Host name lookup failure

I'm fairly new to linux so I don't even know what to try next.
can anyone help?

thanks

Ricardo