What happens to traffic sent to an ltm standby unit self ip address?

We never were able to reach the outside networks had to go back to the 9.3.1 unit.

The self ip i connected to was not the floating ip. Heres the jist of what happened with my standby test. I could ping the gateway address or the self ip. tcpdumps revealed that the ssh session i used was actually redirected to the standby f5 so it went nowhere. I also tried an ssh session to the outside addresss from the standby unit and it went right though. Another thing i tried from the internal server was ssh to other internal servers and connections where taking 2min or more.