I had a school network that was apparently someone who decided that, since BNC T-adapters existed, there was clearly no reason to follow the 'daisychain the mac

I had a school network that was apparently someone who decided that, since BNC T-adapters existed, there was clearly no reason to follow the 'daisychain the machines together' rule, and just spliced in a few branches here and there. Under peculiar and rare conditions, it would occasionally work, confounding the issue further. Discovering and fixing that (surreptitiously, as a student) was a great day, since it meant we could play Doom (2?) much less blatantly since they faced away from the doors. All running IPX and the glorious Novell Netware 3.x.