What is the second "state" in "ip link show" output

Well, lo is a loopback device that doesn't have a hardware-relatable state, whereas eth0 does.

superuser@hermes:~$ ip link show up
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 0a:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

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