This was roughly 19 years ago and my department was not in any way involved with the networking. Sure, in an ideal world that would be possible - but we didn't

This was roughly 19 years ago and my department was not in any way involved with the networking. Sure, in an ideal world that would be possible - but we didn't even have access to the switches. So either it's trying to hunt down the other department in another building who /might/ solve that riddle in an unspecified amount of time... or just do it :)