We've been able to reproduce this internally as well, without even rebooting. I'll add the info here since the multiple active routers seems to be issue, not necessarily the reboot. $ neutron router-create --tenant-id 8beb0d59ef0a448d9e0da918931f3c22 --distributed True --ha True r1 Created a new router: +-------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | Field | Value | +-------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | admin_state_up | True | | availability_zone_hints | | | availability_zones | | | description | | | distributed | True | | external_gateway_info | | | ha | True | | id | cb484e8c-4de6-4a50-89d6-e8c53e6f6d4b | | name | r1 | | routes | | | status | ACTIVE | | tenant_id | 8beb0d59ef0a448d9e0da918931f3c22 | +-------------------------+--------------------------------------+ $ neutron router-gateway-set cb484e8c-4de6-4a50-89d6-e8c53e6f6d4b 72e69016-085b-40a5-94aa-bdacafd5a075 Set gateway for router cb484e8c-4de6-4a50-89d6-e8c53e6f6d4b $ neutron net-create n1 Created a new network: +-------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | Field | Value | +-------------------------+--------------------------------------+ | admin_state_up | True | | availability_zone_hints | | | availability_zones | | | created_at | 2016-06-15T12:28:46 | | description | | | id | 5b644fea-50b7-49b3-b4b3-88a05509f9a0 | | ipv4_address_scope | | | ipv6_address_scope | | | mtu | 1450 | | name | n1 | | router:external | False | | shared | False | | status | ACTIVE | | subnets | | | tags | | | tenant_id | 8beb0d59ef0a448d9e0da918931f3c22 | | updated_at | 2016-06-15T12:28:46 | +-------------------------+--------------------------------------+ $ neutron subnet-create n1 99.99.99.0/24 Created a new subnet: +-------------------+------------------------------------------------+ | Field | Value | +-------------------+------------------------------------------------+ | allocation_pools | {"start": "99.99.99.2", "end": "99.99.99.254"} | | cidr | 99.99.99.0/24 | | created_at | 2016-06-15T12:29:01 | | description | | | dns_nameservers | | | enable_dhcp | True | | gateway_ip | 99.99.99.1 | | host_routes | | | id | b7f2e674-887d-4282-b671-6e8edb5f9524 | | ip_version | 4 | | ipv6_address_mode | | | ipv6_ra_mode | | | name | | | network_id | 5b644fea-50b7-49b3-b4b3-88a05509f9a0 | | subnetpool_id | | | tenant_id | 8beb0d59ef0a448d9e0da918931f3c22 | | updated_at | 2016-06-15T12:29:01 | +-------------------+------------------------------------------------+ $ neutron router-interface-add cb484e8c-4de6-4a50-89d6-e8c53e6f6d4b b7f2e674-887d-4282-b671-6e8edb5f9524 Added interface 1b410fb9-6e87-49d3-a79d-f8226dd83325 to router cb484e8c-4de6-4a50-89d6-e8c53e6f6d4b. $ neutron l3-agent-list-hosting-router cb484e8c-4de6-4a50-89d6-e8c53e6f6d4b +--------------------------------------+-----------------------+----------------+-------+----------+ | id | host | admin_state_up | alive | ha_state | +--------------------------------------+-----------------------+----------------+-------+----------+ | 3807a338-66c1-4812-afe8-30486ce7b593 | hlm004-cp1-c1-m1-mgmt | True | :-) | active | | 7e88f881-b831-48a0-87ca-f9b967e91409 | hlm004-cp1-c1-m3-mgmt | True | :-) | active | +--------------------------------------+-----------------------+----------------+-------+----------+