This is a clone of issue OCPBUGS-37984. The following is the description of the original issue:
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Starting around the beginning of June, `-bm` (real baremetal) jobs started exhibiting a high failure rate.  OCPBUGS-33255 was mentioned as a potential cause, but this was filed much earlier.  

The start date for this is pretty clear in Sippy, chart here:

Example job run: 

https://prow.ci.openshift.org/view/gs/test-platform-results/logs/periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-nightly-4.17-e2e-metal-ipi-ovn-bm-upgrade/1820429351796084736

More job runs

https://sippy.dptools.openshift.org/sippy-ng/jobs/4.17/runs?filters=%257B%2522items%2522%253A%255B%257B%2522columnField%2522%253A%2522variants%2522%252C%2522not%2522%253Afalse%252C%2522operatorValue%2522%253A%2522contains%2522%252C%2522value%2522%253A%2522Platform%253Ametal%2522%257D%252C%257B%2522columnField%2522%253A%2522overall_result%2522%252C%2522operatorValue%2522%253A%2522contains%2522%252C%2522value%2522%253A%2522I%2522%257D%255D%252C%2522linkOperator%2522%253A%2522and%2522%257D&sort=desc&sortField=timestamp

Slack thread:

https://redhat-internal.slack.com/archives/C01CQA76KMX/p1722871253737309

Affecting these tests:

install should succeed: overall 
install should succeed: cluster creation 
install should succeed: bootstrap