diff --git a/lrmd/pacemaker_remote.service.in b/lrmd/pacemaker_remote.service.in
index f73e943103..c045a6d807 100644
--- a/lrmd/pacemaker_remote.service.in
+++ b/lrmd/pacemaker_remote.service.in
@@ -1,22 +1,21 @@
 [Unit]
 Description=Pacemaker Remote Service
 After=network.target
-Requires=network.target
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target
 
 [Service]
 Type=simple
 KillMode=process
 NotifyAccess=none
 SysVStartPriority=99
 EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/pacemaker
 
 ExecStart=@sbindir@/pacemaker_remoted
 
 TimeoutStopSec=30s
 TimeoutStartSec=30s
 
 # Restart options include: no, on-success, on-failure, on-abort or always
 Restart=on-failure
diff --git a/mcp/pacemaker.service.in b/mcp/pacemaker.service.in
index 3562608931..ebad32f7eb 100644
--- a/mcp/pacemaker.service.in
+++ b/mcp/pacemaker.service.in
@@ -1,57 +1,56 @@
 [Unit]
 Description=Pacemaker High Availability Cluster Manager
 
 After=dbus.service
 After=basic.target
 After=syslog.service
 After=network.target
 After=corosync.service
 
 Requires=dbus.service
 Requires=basic.target
-Requires=network.target
 Requires=corosync.service
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target
 
 [Service]
 Type=simple
 KillMode=process
 NotifyAccess=main
 SysVStartPriority=99
 EnvironmentFile=-@sysconfdir@/sysconfig/pacemaker
 EnvironmentFile=-@sysconfdir@/sysconfig/sbd
 SuccessExitStatus=100
 
 ExecStart=@sbindir@/pacemakerd -f
 
 # If pacemakerd doesn't stop, its probably waiting on a cluster
 # resource.  Sending -KILL will just get the node fenced
 SendSIGKILL=no
 
 # If we ever hit the StartLimitInterval/StartLimitBurst limit and the
 # admin wants to stop the cluster while pacemakerd is not running, it
 # might be a good idea to enable the ExecStopPost directive below.
 #
 # Although the node will likely end up being fenced as a result so its
 # not on by default
 #
 # ExecStopPost=/usr/bin/killall -TERM crmd attrd fenced cib pengine lrmd
 
 # If you want Corosync to stop whenever Pacemaker is stopped,
 # uncomment the next line too:
 #
 # ExecStopPost=/bin/sh -c 'pidof crmd || killall -TERM corosync'
 
 # Uncomment this for older versions of systemd that didn't support
 # TimeoutStopSec
 # TimeoutSec=30min
 
 # Pacemaker can only exit after all managed services have shut down
 # A HA database could conceivably take even longer than this 
 TimeoutStopSec=30min
 TimeoutStartSec=60s
 
 # Restart options include: no, on-success, on-failure, on-abort or always
 Restart=on-failure