multiple hostname issue for pogoplue E02

[momentum]

I tried to search the forum and didn't find a similar issue...

I have two pogoplug E02. I set up arch Linux for each of them and had them working for a long time. I set the hostname of them as pogo_a and pogo_b respectively. One day the flash drive in pogo_a seemed broken and I cound't find the backup image for that in my computer. So I clone the system from pogo_b to a new flash drive and put it in pogo_a, then ssh into it to change the hostname. Everything works fine, except that when I look in the active device from my router interface, I can find the ip of pogo_a, pogo_b. I can also see a device as '*' with a separated ip, sometimes associated with the MAC of pogo_a and sometimes associated with the MAC of pogo_b. Before the old flash drive was broken, I remember there were two '*', each of which was associated with pogo_a and pogo_b respectively, so there were no conflicts at that moment.

I have my.pogoplug.com service installed in pogo_b so that I can upload my photos/videos to my device. But due to above issue, the service seems to be interrupted if '*' is taken over by pogo_b. Besides changing the hostname of these devices, I also specify the hostnames in /etc/hosts, and also make sure the ip configuration is set as dhcp by netctl. But none of these steps seem working. The hostname '*' is still 'assigned' to a fixed IP and taken over by the two devices alternatively.

Is there any step to diagnose what's going on here? Really appreciate it!

[WarheadsSE]

Confirm your uboot environments are not seeing them as the same MAC address?

[momentum]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WarheadsSE', 'C')onfirm your uboot environments are not seeing them as the same MAC address?

[moonman]

Use fw_printenv

[momentum]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('moonman', 'U')se fw_printenv

[moonman]

Uncomment the line in /etc/fw_env.config that reads
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '/dev/mtd0 0xc0000 0x20000 0x20000')

[momentum]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('moonman', 'U')ncomment the line in /etc/fw_env.config that reads
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '/dev/mtd0 0xc0000 0x20000 0x20000')

[momentum]

Any possible reason that might cause this issue?

[momentum]

@moonman

Is the my.pogoplug.com service still working? That's the only reason I want to solve this issue. I saw the last update for the software is sometime last year:
https://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=3343


I have been using it for quite a while until one of my flash drive on my pogoplug is broken. Now I remember last year I received an email from pogoplug.com, saying that they no longer support free account like mine, but somehow I could still use it after that deadline. Now even I turn my pogo_a off, I can't see my pogo_b from my.pogoplug.com. Several days ago I can still see my service is switching between on and off, due to the IP conflict issue between my pogo_a and pogo_b.

[moonman]

I haven't used the service in a while and have been updating it for other people only. You can try changing tcpport in pogoplug.conf to something else on one of the devices.