Lock for Ethernet Port(s)?

[olds]

Does someone make a lock for the ports?

We have a room that we use in emergency (floods fires, earthquakes, etc) situations. There are ports around the room for users (and wireless) and there are two ports under the conference table that are set up for the equipment that is used in the emergencies.

Apparently if someone using the room hooks up their laptop to the ports under the table it causes some type of security issue that is time consuming to resolve. (This makes no sense to me but I am not IT and I still need to confirm this with IT. The info was relayed to me by another employee.)

Is there a way to physically lock/block those ports if that needs to happen?

 

[Fardringle]

Lots of different options:
https://www.google.com/#q=physical+lock+for+ethernet+port

 

[imagoon]

Unplug the patch cable at the patch panel.

 

[alkemyst]

Unplug the patch cable at the patch panel.

This or you can do a shut down at the console of the device.

Also most device can do sticky-mac address / port security. If you do sticky mac, limit it to one address (or however many you need) and plug each device you will need to support into the port. You can also just assign the mac addresses to the port.

Then it's up to you to tell that port what to do for a bad mac address.

 

[CubanlB]

Lockable junction box!

 

[DainBrammage]

Panduit makes a whole series of Ehternet cable lock andthat require a key and jack-locks to block access

https://www.google.com/search?q=pan...8&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8