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SCP freezes wthen downloading large files:
This is the command that I am using at the output:
> ~/.ssh/bsshscp -P 222 root@foo:/root/logs.tgz ~/temp
*------------------------------------------------------------------------------*
|THIS IS A PRIVATE COMPUTER SYSTEM, UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.|
|ALL CONNECTIONS ARE LOGGED. IF YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED, DISCONNECT NOW. |
*------------------------------------------------------------------------------*
will try the following accesses you have:
- group-member of admin with ED25519-256 key SHA256:nNbqefYIKSOMTha2XMXpMFu8KDx3Ws0GulB7VIRIBps [2024/06/19]
MFA_TOKEN=notrequired
Connection to dev-bastion closed.
*------------------------------------------------------------------------------*
|THIS IS A PRIVATE COMPUTER SYSTEM, UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.|
|ALL CONNECTIONS ARE LOGGED. IF YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED, DISCONNECT NOW. |
*------------------------------------------------------------------------------*
>>> Hello user, transferring your file through the bastion from [email protected]:222...
logs.tgz 96% 2079MB 97.1MB/s 00:00 ETA
As you can see, the file is over 2GB. If I try this with a small file, it works. If I try it with directly scp (not using the bastion), it also works. This seems to be a hard limit to upload/download sizes that is not documented. I checked here and here.