Wim13: When I spoke with Rigol NA about the details of the firmware upgrade to my DS4000 series scope, they mentioned that the ver 2.00 firmware has "unlocked" some ports so that other, non-proprietary, software could access it (no NI drivers?). I am not at all familiar with this aspect of the network connections to the scope, so I will leave this to others to sort out. But it sounds like they are loosening up things a bit to allow more flexible machine control.