Please note that this is completely normal when using a flat network. the neutron service status root@controller:~# openstack network agent list +--------------------------------------+--------------------+------------+-------------------+-------+-------+---------------------------+ | ID | Agent Type | Host | Availability Zone | Alive | State | Binary | +--------------------------------------+--------------------+------------+-------------------+-------+-------+---------------------------+ | 29d77da1-2a34-428d-9c35-3817b16e81ad | Open vSwitch agent | compute1 | None | :-) | UP | neutron-openvswitch-agent | | 45c711c9-fefe-47b1-9b5a-3229b62d055e | Open vSwitch agent | compute2 | None | :-) | UP | neutron-openvswitch-agent | | 9822aee6-2713-47a5-932e-d3b9832e993f | Metadata agent | controller | None | :-) | UP | neutron-metadata-agent | | cc7a2afd-6f1b-41d1-9211-18a74185dd58 | Open vSwitch agent | controller | None | :-) | UP | neutron-openvswitch-agent | | f1dc53d2-22d8-48d1-b474-358aab4d186a | DHCP agent | controller | nova | :-) | UP | neutron-dhcp-agent | | f9382f44-8082-4fec-9d26-1be9c6e0582f | L3 agent | controller | nova | :-) | UP | neutron-l3-agent | +--------------------------------------+--------------------+------------+-------------------+-------+-------+---------------------------+ root@controller:~#