To form a mesh, each Rallypoint must establish a connection with every other Rallypoint; the directionality of the connection does not matter so long as a connection exists. An 'inbound' connection means that the Rallypoint is acting as the server and the peer Rallypoint the client; an 'outbound' connection reverses this relationship. Peering Rallypoints will not establish duplicate links; once an outbound connection is established, the remote peer will stop trying to establish its own outbound connection. Thus, the number of peer links (inbound plus outbound) should equal the number of nodes in the mesh, minus one.

To prevent the creation of loops in the mesh network, each link between peers is uniquely identified by a peer ID. The peer ID is the initial 18 characters of the remote Rallypoint’s ID, as assigned by Instant Connect. This value is visible in the ICE Desktop user interface as 'Peer ID.' Therefore, in the example above, the Rallypoint has established an outbound connection to the Rallypoint whose peer ID is '9e576bed-9ad4-4152.' You can determine the member server corresponding to this link by locating the server whose displayed 'Peer ID' starts with this value, for instance, 'Peer ID: 9e576bed-9ad4-4152-ae86-f5b428c726c9.'