172.25.38.126 router login
To open the admin panel, type 172.25.38.126 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.
172.25.38.126 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 pair is documented for anything answering on 172.25.38.126, and guessing one is pointless on a mid-block host that could be almost any device. Read the defaults off the equipment itself: the label on the underside or rear panel, the quick-start card in the box, the vendor's manual for that exact model, or the provisioning notes from whoever installed the network.
How to log in to your router
Type 172.25.38.126 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 172.25.38.126, 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 nobody knows the password, look first for an admin who can reset it in software, since a hardware reset is destructive. Holding the recessed reset button returns the unit to factory defaults, which wipes port forwarding, static leases, VLANs and firewall rules, and reverts the Wi-Fi name and passphrase to the values printed on the label. Export a configuration backup beforehand if the interface still lets you in.
172.25.38.126 sits inside 172.16.0.0/12, the mid-size private range defined by RFC 1918. That block covers 172.16.x.x through 172.31.x.x, holds 1,048,576 addresses under the netmask 255.240.0.0, and turns up most often in mid-size business networks, lab builds, VPN subnets and Docker's default bridge networking. It is also the block people most often mistake for public space, because 172.x.x.x values outside the 16-31 second-octet window really are routable on the internet.
Within the local /24, 172.25.38.0/24, the usable hosts run from 172.25.38.1 to 172.25.38.254 and 172.25.38.255 is the broadcast address. This address occupies host position 126, near the middle of the range and well away from the low positions routers normally take, so it is far more likely to be a workstation, server, container or appliance handed a lease than the gateway itself. Most people arriving here are trying to confirm what kind of device answers on 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 172.25.38.0/24
The 172.25.38.0/24 subnet runs from 172.25.38.1 to 172.25.38.254, with 172.25.38.255 reserved as the broadcast address. These are the addresses in it we hold router login details for.
All addresses we cover here
2 addresses in this subnet have a page; the most looked-up are listed here.