Help Shape Outbound FTP traffic

[fsSnowboard]

I am trying to shape my outgoing FTP traffic by putting it in a lower priority que.  My other Floating rules are working fine, but am having issues with the FTP.  I created a Layer7 FTP rule (attachment 1).  By itself it doesn't seem to do anything.  After some research it looks like I needed to apply it to a Pass floating rule.  So I created a rule for Active FTP (Destination port 20) from Any.  Under advanced features I set the AckQueue/Queue to the qAck and qOthersLow, and the Layer7 field to my FTP rule (attachment 2).  It doesn't seem to catch anything.

If I remove the port number, it catches things it shouldn't (like traffic to remote computers over the IPSEC VPN.)

Anyone have any idea's on how I can identify and filter FTP traffic, both passive and active?

Edit: I am using HFSC, but I don't think that matters for this question.

[KOM]

What do you mean when you say outgoing FTP?  Upload from your desktop to the Internet, or outbound from your LAN-based FTP server?  Floating rules use the MATCH action, not PASS, from what I remember.

[fsSnowboard]

@KOM:

What do you mean when you say outgoing FTP?  Upload from your desktop to the Internet, or outbound from your LAN-based FTP server?

Upload from desktop to an FTP server on the internet.

Floating rules use the MATCH action, not PASS, from what I remember.

I tried that, but it said when I did it that Layer7 needed to be a Pass rule, which is why it is set to Pass.

I'm still researching.  I found that maybe pfSense has an FTP helper built in and this might be breaking the queue.  Does anybody know?

[KOM]

You might have better luck elevating important traffic to a high-priority queue and relegating all other traffic, including FTP, to a low queue.

[fsSnowboard]

I think that is what I am going to do.  I read this post and learned quite a bit more.  The rest of that thread is good too.