Here is more of my effort in getting my lab PCs onto the internet.
I can telnet to the router via 172.17.8.4. If I attempt to telnet to the router through 172.17.50.1 (its other port) it gives me the following error:
H:\>telnet 172.17.50.1
Connecting To 172.17.50.1...Could not open connection to the host, on port 23: Connect failed
It appears that 172.17.8.1 doesn’t know how to get to 172.17.8.4 and then on to 172.17.50.1.
I do a Tracert from a command prompt window (from 172.17.8.236) and get the following:
H:\>tracert 172.17.50.1
Tracing route to 172.17.50.1 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 172.17.8.1
2 172.17.8.1 reports: Destination host unreachable.
Trace complete.
When telnetted into the router (through 172.17.8.4), I am able to ping just about anywhere.
It has to be something on 172.17.8.1 that is preventing the talking