Thanks for the clarification! I confirmed that I see the specified protocols using `show protocol all`:

With ipv4 and ipv6 tables added explicitly:

... [preceding lines] ...

    Local capabilities
      Multiprotocol
        AF announced: ipv4 vpn4-mpls ipv6

... [following lines] ...

With just the vpn4 mpls table:

... [preceding lines] ...

    Local capabilities
      Multiprotocol
        AF announced: vpn4-mpls

... [following lines] ...

I'll follow up with the bird-lg contributors, it's possible that it's not ready to handle the output from BIRD 2 for multi-table protocols.

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 6:26 AM Ondrej Zajicek <santiago@crfreenet.org> wrote:

On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 11:34:16AM -0500, Chris Herdt wrote:
> Following the example at https://github.com/BIRD/bird/
> blob/v2.0.2/doc/bird.conf.example2, I set up a simple bird config (see
> below).
>
> It is working, but I am not certain what the '---' in the table column of
> the output of `show protocols` means. I expected the column to display
> vpntab4.

Hi

BGP in BIRD 2 is generally a multi-table protocol (although you use just
one channel / one table) and because of that associated table is not shown
in 'show protocol'. You will see it in 'show protocol all'.

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