diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/netperf/netperf_2.6.0.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/netperf/netperf_2.6.0.bb
index eda78599c1..c206d5657d 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/netperf/netperf_2.6.0.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/netperf/netperf_2.6.0.bb
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/netperf-${PV}"
 # cpu_set.patch plus _GNU_SOURCE makes src/netlib.c compile with CPU_ macros
 CFLAGS_append = " -DDO_UNIX -DDO_IPV6 -D_GNU_SOURCE"
 
+# set the "_FILE_OFFSET_BITS" preprocessor symbol to 64 to support files
+# larger than 2GB
+CFLAGS_append = "${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'largefile', \
+    ' -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', '', d)}"
+
 # autotools.bbclass attends to include m4 files with path depth <= 2 by
 # "find ${S} -maxdepth 2 -name \*.m4", so move m4 files from m4/m4.
 do_configure_prepend() {