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The difference between access and trunk ports

The difference between access and trunk ports is that Access ports are used to connect terminal devices and provide access to a single VLAN, while Trunk ports are used to connect switches and provide transmission of multiple VLANs; Access ports only transmit data belonging to specified VLANs, while Trunk ports can transmit data from multiple VLANs and use VLAN tags to distinguish them. If you want to know more about access and trunk ports, you can read the articles below this topic.