diff --git a/xCAT-nbroot2/dodiscovery b/xCAT-nbroot2/dodiscovery
index 7c6eda5cc..dc8a5b8da 100755
--- a/xCAT-nbroot2/dodiscovery
+++ b/xCAT-nbroot2/dodiscovery
@@ -5,11 +5,6 @@ PUBKEY=`echo $PUBKEY|sed -e 's/ //g'`
 export PUBKEY
 
 echo "Beginning node discovery process"
-NICSTOBRINGUP=`ip link|grep mtu|grep -v LOOPBACK|grep -v usb|grep -v ,UP|awk -F: '{print $2}'`
-for nic in $NICSTOBRINGUP; do
-	dhclient -cf /etc/dhclient.conf -pf /var/run/dhclient.$nic.pid $nic &
-	#no need to go out of our way for superfluous ipv6 nics
-done
 waitforlink=100
 while [ ! -z "$NICSTOBRINGUP" -a $waitforlink -gt 0 ]; do
 	NICSTOBRINGUP=`ip link|grep mtu|grep -v LOOPBACK|grep -v usb|grep -v ,LOWER_UP|awk -F: '{print $2}'`
@@ -42,7 +37,7 @@ done
 if [ $timewaiting != 700 -a $timewaiting -gt 450 ]; then
 	echo "Got an address, but it took inordinately long, you may want to check spanning tree configuration"
 fi
-echo "Stopped waiting on nics to get addresses"
+echo "Network configuration complete, commencing transmit of discovery packets"
 XCATPORT=3001
 export XCATPORT
 for parm in `cat /proc/cmdline`; do
diff --git a/xCAT-nbroot2/doxcat b/xCAT-nbroot2/doxcat
index bde549036..618ba3e97 100755
--- a/xCAT-nbroot2/doxcat
+++ b/xCAT-nbroot2/doxcat
@@ -63,7 +63,16 @@ done
 echo '};' >> /var/lib/lldpad/lldpad.conf
 lldpad -d
 dhclient -cf /etc/dhclient.conf -pf /var/run/dhclient.$bootnic.pid $bootnic &
+#we'll kick of IPv6 and IPv4 on all nics, but not wait for them to come up unless doing discovery, to reduce
+#chances that we'll perform a partial discovery
+#in other scenarios where downed non-bootnics cause issues, will rely on retries to fix things up
 dhclient -6 -pf /var/run/dhclient6.$bootnic.pid $bootnic -lf /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient6.leases &
+NICSTOBRINGUP=`ip link|grep mtu|grep -v LOOPBACK|grep -v $bootnic|grep -v usb|grep -v ,UP|awk -F: '{print $2}'`
+export NICSTOBRINGUP
+for nic in $NICSTOBRINGUP; do
+	dhclient -cf /etc/dhclient.conf -pf /var/run/dhclient.$nic.pid $nic &
+	dhclient -cf /etc/dhclient.conf -6 -pf /var/run/dhclient6.$nic.pid -lf var/lib/dhclient/dhclient6.leases $nic &
+done
 openssl genrsa -out /etc/xcat/certkey.pem 4096 > /dev/null 2>&1 &
 
 	
@@ -79,7 +88,7 @@ while ! ip addr show dev $bootnic|grep -v 'scope link'|grep -v 'dynamic'|grep -v
 	fi
 	gripeiter=$((gripeiter-1))
 done
-echo -n "Acquired IPv4 address "
+echo -n "Acquired IPv4 address on $bootnic: "
 ip addr show dev $bootnic|grep -v 'scope link'|grep -v 'dynamic'|grep -v  inet6|grep inet|awk '{print $2}'
 ntpd -g -x
 (while ! ntpq -c "rv 0 state"|grep 'state=4' > /dev/null; do sleep 1; done; hwclock --systohc) &