10.0.0.38 router login
To open the admin panel, type 10.0.0.38 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.
10.0.0.38 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.
There are no documented default credential pairs for 10.0.0.38, and none should be assumed. Default logins belong to a device model, not to an address, so any pair quoted for a bare private IP is guesswork. Find the device's own defaults instead: check the label or sticker on its underside or rear, which on many devices prints the default username, password or PIN alongside the serial number, then the printed or downloadable manual for that exact model, and finally your ISP's documentation if the equipment was supplied with a service. Credentials set at installation override anything printed.
How to log in to your router
Type 10.0.0.38 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 10.0.0.38, 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
If the interface at this address rejects your login, first confirm what the device actually is; identifying the model is what makes recovery instructions meaningful, and no specific vendor is known to ship 10.0.0.38 as a default gateway. A factory reset is the usual last resort and is not free: it commonly wipes Wi-Fi names and passwords, port forwarding, static leases, firewall rules, VPN settings and any ISP-specific provisioning, so the network may need rebuilding and the line may need reconfiguring afterwards. Export or photograph the configuration first where possible, and follow the reset method the device's own manual specifies.
10.0.0.38 is a private IPv4 address from 10.0.0.0/8, the largest of the three blocks RFC 1918 sets aside for private use. With a netmask of 255.0.0.0 the block spans 16,777,216 addresses, and none of them are routable on the public internet. That size is the reason 10.0.0.0/8 turns up in corporate and campus networks, ISP-managed customer equipment, carrier-grade gear, VPN address pools and container or orchestration networks, where it is almost always subnetted far below /8. Because the block is unallocated space that anyone may reuse, no location, ISP, owner or registrant can be attached to this address; the same number is in use on countless unrelated networks at the same time.
In practice 10.0.0.38 is usually read as part of a 10.0.0.0/24 subnet, whose usable range is 10.0.0.1 to 10.0.0.254 with 10.0.0.255 as the broadcast address. It sits at position 38 in that range, which is not one of the low positions routers commonly take for themselves.
Most people who look this address up have found it in a DHCP lease table, a connected-devices list, an ARP table or a log entry, and want to know what is answering there. Given its position, the likelier answer is a client or server on the network rather than the gateway itself.
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
OrgTechRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/IANA-IP-ARIN
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.