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Subject: amd64 ?!
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hi all...

i have dilemma.

i asked a hosting faclity to set up freebsd 7 on  new server.  and i 
mentioned that it should be 64 bit.
now they when i get into the machine i get:
srv391# uname -a
FreeBSD srv391.carpathiahost.com 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun 
Feb 24 10:35:36 UTC 2008     
root@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

i did ask for an intel machine and the dmseg actually states:

CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5405  @ 2.00GHz (1997.01-MHz 
K8-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x10676  Stepping = 6
  
Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
  
Features2=0xce33d<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,DCA,<b19>>
  AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM>
  AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>


so i'm a bit confused about the the 64 bit and why the machine is 
identifying itself as amd64 and not i686?