# Connecting Peers

First things first, let's join the Lightning Network! Connections to other peers are established with PeerManager. You'll need to know the pubkey and address of another node that you want as a peer. Once the connection is established and the handshake is complete, PeerManager will show the peer's pubkey in its list of peers.

Rust
Java

match lightning_net_tokio::connect_outbound(Arc::clone(&peer_manager), pubkey, address).await {
	Some(connection_closed_future) => {
		let mut connection_closed_future = Box::pin(connection_closed_future);
		loop {
			// Make sure the connection is still established.
			match futures::poll!(&mut connection_closed_future) {
				std::task::Poll::Ready(_) => {
					panic!("ERROR: Peer disconnected before handshake completed");
				}
				std::task::Poll::Pending => {}
			}

			// Wait for the handshake to complete.
			match peer_manager.get_peer_node_ids().iter().find(|id| **id == pubkey) {
				Some(_) => break,
				None => tokio::time::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_millis(10)).await,
			}
		}
	}
	None => panic!("ERROR: Failed to connect to peer"),
}
 
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