FTP traffic goes out WAN instead of WAN2, ignoring firewall rules

[jjj]

We have "Disable the userland FTP-Proxy application" unchecked on the LAN, and the "TCP|LAN net||127.0.0.1|8000 - 8030||FTP Helper" rule at the top of the LAN interface then further down we have a send all IPs part of AliasX to go out WAN2 for port 21…. But all the FTP traffic goes out WAN1 instead.... What are we doing wrong?

[GruensFroeschli]

This means that the connections is handled by the FTP-proxy (which can only make use of the primary WAN).
Disable the FTP helper and it should work.

[jjj]

Disabling the FTP-proxy breaks active FTP and some of the servers we connect to are active-only…..

[GruensFroeschli]

In this case you cannot use policy routing and you will have to create static routes for all these servers pointing to the gateway of WAN2.