What is better? Use a SMP kernel or amd64 for network?

[Wes Morgan]

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Rafael Ganascim wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I have a doubt (don't encountered on google) about what is better for a
> FreeBSD Router: use a 32bits SMP kernel or an amd64? I know that exists some
> differences, but generaly, what is better and why?
>
> I have a hardware with Xeon Dual processor.

Why not an SMP amd64 kernel? SMP is not exclusive to i386.