Why scp fails to transfer file of size more than 4gb ?

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Issue

  • scp from one physical server to another can succeed, but fails at intermittent times past 4gb.
  • scp not transferring files of size more than 4gb.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • OpenSSH

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