Yeah librecmc is pretty awsome they also support a portable router by tplink TL-MR3020 v1 this one is arround 20 USD, there is also thinkpenguin RYFcertified tpe-r1300 is more expensive though.

As for your problem you could look into https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-mt300n-v2/ and https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-ar300m/ they are quite cheap arround 30 USD and yse dualband so you can make it seam like you are just another machine for ISP router, byt it still can create a separate network, os so small you can atach it to your laptop lid with some velcro, is also very usefull in conferences and airport networks and so on because all atack surface is on router not your machine, it also has a programable hardware kill switch so you can disable network with a single click enable I2P routing etc. This might be the solution for you .

Do you know any routers that have potential to be librecmc candidates and can be unbricked in a way similar or better than by nmrpflash?

Especially if they new...

;)b

As for your problem you could look into https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-mt300n-v2/ and https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-ar300m/ they are quite cheap arround 30 USD and yse dualband so you can make it seam like you are just another machine for ISP router, byt it still can create a separate network, os so small you can atach it to your laptop lid with some velcro, is also very usefull in conferences and airport networks and so on because all atack surface is on router not your machine, it also has a programable hardware kill switch so you can disable network with a single click enable I2P routing etc. This might be the solution for you .

Checked the ones with LibreCMC and td-wd8970 . None is available in India! It's crazy.

Also, the ISP that provides fibre optic based internet has made it compulsory to use their own router! Unfortunately, I'll use that until a better option for ISP comes around! I'll write a complaint for this issue although I highly doubt it would bring any result!

The one I use is netgear WDNR3800.

The only netgear supposedly compatible with librecmc.

If you don't have access to it, I recommend trying to find one openwrt supports that has either a broken backdoor which hardly works, or one without one entirely... if possible, I mean.

Also, the ISP that provides fibre optic based internet has made it compulsory to use their own router! Unfortunately, I'll use that until a better option for ISP comes around! I'll write a complaint for this issue although I highly doubt it would bring any result!

https://www.tp-link.com/no/home-network … /td-w8970/

Or the alternative with LibreCMC, but therefore you also need some (V)DSL-connection which is not part of the hardware:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreCMC

Which OS should I use on the router?

Please suggest least freedom curtailing one if none with complete freedom is available.