@kanutek:

thanks i will see if i can get that to work on me netgear router not seen anything for it yet but i am using little snitch and Doorstop firewall and i have seen nothing for ICMP on those i have disabled them and tried with no joy... do you happen to know the port number it uses maybe?
i have sent a mail to netgear to see how to enable this as i can't see anything

fingers crossed
:-)