folks i am using SLES 10. when i enter the command

ip route show

it gives me output

10.0.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.0.2
169.254.0.0/24 dev eth0 scope link
127.0.0.1/8 dev lo scope link
default via 10.0.0.254 dev eth0


I dont understand first 2 lines in this output.

I was reading some where that the first line represents the route for the local network.
All network packets to a System in the same network are sent directly through the
device eth0


I dont get any thing in that. and then what is that proto kernel scope link src 10.0.0.2??


The the second line... it says that this line shows a network route for 169.254.0.0 network.

Hosts can use this for "address auto configuration". what is that?


Can any one give good description of first two lines?