10.138.0.1 router login
To open the admin panel, type 10.138.0.1 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.
10.138.0.1 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.
Even though this is a typical gateway position, no default credential pair is recorded for 10.138.0.1, and none will be invented here. Look for a label on the router itself, often on the base or behind a flap, listing an administrative account and initial password. Provider-supplied routers publish theirs in the provider's setup documentation.
How to log in to your router
Type 10.138.0.1 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 10.138.0.1, 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 gateway password is unknown, note that resetting a router carries more consequence than resetting a client device. Everything it holds goes: internet connection profile, PPPoE or VLAN details, DHCP scope, port forwards and parental controls. The Wi-Fi name and password revert to the printed defaults, and if provider settings were preloaded they may need re-entering before service returns.
10.138.0.1 is drawn from 10.0.0.0/8, the largest of the RFC 1918 private ranges — 16,777,216 addresses under a 255.0.0.0 netmask, none of them routable across the public internet. Because the block is so large, it is the default choice for corporate networks, provider-managed equipment, VPN address pools and virtualised or container platforms.
Within 10.138.0.0/24 the assignable hosts are 10.138.0.1 to 10.138.0.254, and 10.138.0.255 is the broadcast address. This address occupies the first usable slot, the position most commonly given to a default gateway, router or firewall interface, so a device answering here is quite likely performing routing for its segment. No other addresses in this /24 are documented. Users looking it up have usually found it listed as their default gateway and want to open its management interface.
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.
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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
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StateProv: CA
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RegDate:
Updated: 2012-08-31
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