Strange traffic showing up in tcpdump

Ok, so I have this FreeBSD 8 server that has two NICs. I'm using NAT so one talks to the internet and the other to my internal network.
ifconfig shows this:
Code:
xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=9<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
        ether 00:50:04:31:9a:51
        inet 78.77.77.188 netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast 78.77.77.255
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active

rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=8<VLAN_MTU>
        ether 00:04:61:74:44:ac
        inet 172.27.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.27.0.255
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active
When I tcpdump my external NIC (xl0), besides the usual traffic I get this weird broadcast traffic involving two MAC addresses that I can't identify and can't understand what this traffic actually is:
Code:
11:58:15.727791 00:09:0f:ff:9f:c8 (oui Unknown) > Broadcast, ethertype Unknown (0x8890), length 96:
        0x0000:  2900 0052 b246 4732 3030 4233 3931 3136  )..R.FG200B39116
        0x0010:  3130 3239 3900 16c2 0000 04b4 3b1d aa40  10299.......;..@
        0x0020:  ee28 dd7f c800 0000 1fba 8799 71bb 0c69  .(..........q..i
        0x0030:  3c37 6a16 6cd8 79cd 706f 7274 3133 0000  <7j.l.y.port13..
        0x0040:  0000 0000 0000 0000 0100 0000 0800 0000  ................
        0x0050:  0000                                     ..
11:58:15.781243 IP blabla.astral.ro.3199 > streamer2-2.distinctgroup.net.1935: Flags [.], ack 1981, win 17008, length 0
11:58:15.888705 00:09:0f:fa:56:e9 (oui Unknown) > Broadcast, ethertype Unknown (0x8890), length 96:
        0x0000:  2900 0052 b246 4732 3030 4233 3931 3136  )..R.FG200B39116
        0x0010:  3037 3532 3101 d815 0000 0545 3b1d aa40  07521......E;..@
        0x0020:  ee28 dd7f c800 0000 204c d240 9a8c 22e2  .(.......L.@..".
        0x0030:  1865 e869 18f8 2bc3 706f 7274 3133 0000  .e.i..+.port13..
        0x0040:  0000 0000 0000 0000 0100 0000 0800 0100  ................
        0x0050:  0000
Anyone got any idea what this is? I haven't tried yet to change the NIC with a new one, maybe something wrong with the actual network card.
 
That's possible. Have you asked them if they have any FortiGate equipment? It's also possible the traffic is generated by another customer.
 
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