172.24.1.1 router login
To open the admin panel, type 172.24.1.1 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.
172.24.1.1 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.
No default username and password combination is recorded for 172.24.1.1, and no specific vendor is known to ship this address as a factory gateway. Since gateways in the 172 block are typically the product of a planned design, the account protecting one is almost always a chosen credential rather than a factory one.
If the equipment is yours, the manufacturer's defaults would be on the chassis label or in the model documentation. If it belongs to an employer, a hosting provider or a network you are only a guest on, the administrator holds the login and is the correct point of contact.
How to log in to your router
Type 172.24.1.1 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 172.24.1.1, 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 takes the segment down with it. Everything a router at this address holds — interface addressing, routing and NAT rules, DHCP scopes, firewall policy, VPN definitions, VLAN mappings — disappears, and hosts behind it lose connectivity until the configuration is rebuilt and their default route is restored.
Because no vendor is associated with this address, use the recovery method documented for the exact platform. Save or export the running configuration first if you can still reach the device at all. Many routers and firewalls support a password-recovery boot sequence over a console cable, which restores access while leaving the configuration intact.
172.24.1.1 lies inside 172.16.0.0/12, the middle-sized RFC 1918 range. With netmask 255.240.0.0 the block provides 1,048,576 addresses covering 172.16.x.x to 172.31.x.x, and it is favoured by mid-size business networks, laboratory setups, VPN subnets and container bridge networks. Because 172 addresses outside that specific window are ordinary public space, this block is the one most frequently misidentified. Inside the window, though, the rules are the same as for any private address: no owner, no location, no routing across the internet.
The subnet here is 172.24.1.0/24, usable from 172.24.1.1 to 172.24.1.254 with broadcast at 172.24.1.255. The address takes the first usable position, the slot conventionally given to the router, firewall or layer-3 switch interface that serves the segment. Numbering a network 172.24.1.x usually reflects a deliberate addressing plan rather than a factory default, since the 172 block is picked most often by people who want room to organise many subnets without colliding with the consumer ranges their clients might already use.
Most people reading this have seen 172.24.1.1 listed as their default gateway or as a next hop, and want to reach the interface behind it.
Whois information for 172.16.0.0/12
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NetRange: 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
CIDR: 172.16.0.0/12
NetName: PRIVATE-ADDRESS-BBLK-RFC1918-IANA-RESERVED
NetHandle: NET-172-16-0-0-1
Parent: ()
NetType: IANA Special Use
OriginAS:
Organization: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
RegDate: 1994-03-15
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/172.16.0.0
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 172.24.1.0/24
The 172.24.1.0/24 subnet runs from 172.24.1.1 to 172.24.1.254, with 172.24.1.255 reserved as the broadcast address. These are the addresses in it we hold router login details for.
All addresses we cover here
14 addresses in this subnet have a page; the most looked-up are listed here.