10.45.45.1 router login
To open the admin panel, type 10.45.45.1 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.
10.45.45.1 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.
Although this address occupies a gateway position, no default username and password is documented for it, and no specific hardware is known to ship it. Do not attempt credentials found elsewhere.
The device answering on 10.45.45.1 has its own factory login, normally printed on a sticker on the case or listed in the manual for that model. Gear configured for VPN or site-to-site duty is often provisioned centrally, so its original password may already have been replaced — in that case the team that deployed the segment holds the working credentials.
How to log in to your router
Type 10.45.45.1 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 10.45.45.1, 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
Resetting a gateway costs more than resetting an endpoint, because everything downstream depends on it. A restore to defaults typically removes the 10.45.45.1 address itself, along with DHCP scopes, NAT and firewall policy, VPN tunnels and pre-shared keys, static routes and any DNS forwarding — leaving the whole segment without service until it is rebuilt.
Export or photograph the configuration first if you possibly can. Then, since no vendor is documented here, use the general method: hold the recessed reset control ten to thirty seconds under power and wait for the reboot to complete.
10.45.45.1 is drawn from 10.0.0.0/8, the biggest RFC 1918 range at 16,777,216 addresses under a 255.0.0.0 netmask. That block is the standard choice for corporate and campus networks, ISP-managed CPE, carrier-grade equipment, VPN address pools and container networking, all of which subnet it far below /8. Private addresses carry no ownership and no geography; identical numbering exists on unrelated networks worldwide.
Its subnet is 10.45.45.0/24, usable from 10.45.45.1 to 10.45.45.254 with 10.45.45.255 reserved for broadcast. Unlike most addresses of this kind, 10.45.45.1 occupies the .1 position — the first usable host in the subnet and the slot conventionally given to the router, firewall or layer-3 interface that serves the segment. Where the address is in use, it is therefore very likely to be a gateway rather than a client. Deliberately memorable third and fourth octets like 45.45 are typical of hand-planned numbering: a VPN tunnel endpoint, a lab segment or a site identifier in a larger scheme.
Visitors usually arrive after finding 10.45.45.1 listed as their default gateway and wanting 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
PostalCode: 90094
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RegDate:
Updated: 2012-08-31
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OrgAbusePhone: +1-310-301-5820
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