It’s an ethernet wire that’s going to be exiting my house and running to a camera in a publicly accessible space. An attacker could disconnect the camera, connect a laptop and access my network. How could I protect against that (other than a physical lock)? I basically want to lock down that cable to the point where nothing works on it unless it’s the intended camera. If this was wireless, I’d just use MAC filtering, but I don’t see an equivalent for wired connections.
I’ve used some switches from Zyxel, that closes the port down if the cable is detached. Then you have to log into the switch to enable the port again. It is simple and works great.