10.0.0.238 router login
To open the admin panel, type 10.0.0.238 into your browser's address bar. If the page does not load, this is probably not the gateway address on your network — see the checks below.
10.0.0.238 router passwords
Where to find them:
- The label on the underside or back of the router — most manufacturers print the default admin username, password and Wi-Fi key there.
- The quick-start card or manual that came in the box.
- Your ISP's account portal, if the device was supplied by them — many set a unique password per line rather than a shared default.
No factory login is documented for 10.0.0.238. A dynamically assigned address in the upper part of a pool rarely belongs to administrative equipment in the first place, and where it does, the credentials belong to that specific model rather than to the address.
If you do need to sign in, read the defaults off the hardware: the base or back panel label, the quick-start leaflet, or the support documentation for the exact model. Devices installed by an internet provider often use credentials printed on their own paperwork or held only by the provider's support team.
How to log in to your router
Type 10.0.0.238 into your browser's address bar and press Enter. Type it by hand rather than accepting an autocomplete suggestion, which often fills in a different address you visited before.
If the browser reports that it cannot reach 10.0.0.238, this is not the gateway address on your network. On Windows run ipconfig /all and read the Default Gateway line; on macOS open System Settings, Network, Details, TCP/IP; on Linux run ip route and read the address after "default via".
If the login page loads but rejects your credentials, and you have never changed them, use the defaults printed on the device's label. If they have been changed and nobody knows the new password, a factory reset is the only way back in.
If you do not know the password
When access fails, confirm the address still points at the device you expect. Leases in the high range are recycled, so 10.0.0.238 may already have moved to a different machine since you noted it.
Factory resetting is destructive: it discards network configuration, saved passwords, wireless settings and any customisation, returning the device to its shipped state. On leased or provider-supplied equipment it can also break the provisioning that made the service work, requiring a support call to restore. Reserve it for cases where no documented credential works and no administrator can supply one.
Falling inside 10.0.0.0/8, the address 10.0.0.238 is private by design under RFC 1918. The block holds 16,777,216 addresses behind the mask 255.0.0.0 and is favoured wherever a network may need room to expand: business and university LANs, ISP-managed home gateways, carrier equipment, remote-access address pools and software-defined container networks. Every one of those deployments splits the block into far smaller subnets, and because the space is unregistered, the address says nothing about who is using it or where.
The surrounding subnet is 10.0.0.0/24, running from 10.0.0.1 to 10.0.0.254 with broadcast at 10.0.0.255. Host number 238 sits near the top of that range. High positions like this are characteristic of the tail end of a DHCP scope, where leases are issued to whatever connects last, so the occupant can change from week to week as devices come and go.
Some 177 visitors a year arrive looking for this address. The common thread is an unexplained entry on a network — a new client in the router's list, an address in a log line, or a machine discovered by a scanning tool.
Whois information for 10.0.0.0/8
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NetRange: 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
CIDR: 10.0.0.0/8
NetName: PRIVATE-ADDRESS-ABLK-RFC1918-IANA-RESERVED
NetHandle: NET-10-0-0-0-1
Parent: ()
NetType: IANA Special Use
OriginAS:
Organization: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
RegDate: 1995-06-23
Updated: 2013-08-30
Comment: These addresses are in use by many millions of independently operated networks, which might be as small as a single computer connected to a home gateway, and are automatically configured in hundreds of millions of devices. They are only intended for use within a private context and traffic that needs to cross the Internet will need to use a different, unique address.
Comment:
Comment: These addresses can be used by anyone without any need to coordinate with IANA or an Internet registry. The traffic from these addresses does not come from ICANN or IANA. We are not the source of activity you may see on logs or in e-mail records. Please refer to http://www.iana.org/abuse/answers
Comment:
Comment: These addresses were assigned by the IETF, the organization that develops Internet protocols, in the Best Current Practice document, RFC 1918 which can be found at:
Comment: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc1918
Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/10.0.0.0
OrgName: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
OrgId: IANA
Address: 12025 Waterfront Drive
Address: Suite 300
City: Los Angeles
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 90094
Country: US
RegDate:
Updated: 2012-08-31
Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/IANA
OrgAbuseHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: ICANN
OrgAbusePhone: +1-310-301-5820
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@iana.org
OrgAbuseRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgTechHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgTechName: ICANN
OrgTechPhone: +1-310-301-5820
OrgTechEmail: abuse@iana.org
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Other documented addresses in 10.0.0.0/24
The 10.0.0.0/24 subnet runs from 10.0.0.1 to 10.0.0.254, with 10.0.0.255 reserved as the broadcast address. These are the addresses in it we hold router login details for.
Most looked up in this subnet
All addresses we cover here
255 addresses in this subnet have a page; the most looked-up are listed here.