Connections, "every packet" rules, and a packet tracer

- Connections: the kernel's tracked connections, read and closed over
  ctnetlink (internal/conntrack, raw netlink like the drop log), with
  their NAT and TCP state; closing one makes the rules check its next
  packet again (GET /connections, POST /connections/close; hc
  connections; Traffic → Connections).
- Rules can check every packet (every_packet, --every-packet): before
  established connections are accepted, so a drop or reject also stops
  connections already open. They can't accept.
- A packet tracer (internal/trace): a table of its own, inet
  housecarl-trace, marks the packets a filter picks, `nft monitor trace`
  reports every rule and policy they meet in every table, and the tracer
  names what accepted or dropped them, Housecarl's rules by name (POST,
  GET, DELETE /trace; hc trace; Traffic → Trace). One trace at a time,
  at most 200 packets and 20 a second; the table goes when it ends.

e2e: 157 checks, among them an upload a normal block doesn't stop and an
every-packet one does, and a trace naming the blocking rule.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ func router() *model.State {
Quota: &model.Quota{Bytes: 50000 << 20, Over: true, Reset: "monthly", Day: 15}, Comment: "guest quota"})
rule(model.ChainForward, model.Rule{Match: model.Match{InZones: []string{"lan"}, OutZones: []string{"wan"}}, Action: model.ActionDrop,
Quota: &model.Quota{Bytes: 5 << 30, Over: true, PerSource: true, Reset: "daily"}, Comment: "device quota"})
rule(model.ChainForward, model.Rule{Match: model.Match{Sources: []string{"10.0.10.66"}}, Action: model.ActionReject, EveryPacket: true, Comment: "blocked now"})
rule(model.ChainEarly, model.Rule{Match: model.Match{InZones: []string{"wan"}, Sources: []string{"198.51.100.0/24"}}, Action: model.ActionDrop})
rule(model.ChainOutput, model.Rule{Raw: "meta skuid 0 counter accept", Comment: "raw"})
st.Forwards = []*model.PortForward{
@@ -186,6 +187,9 @@ func TestRenderRouter(t *testing.T) {
if bw := strings.Index(fwd, "limit rate over 5 mbytes/second"); bw > est {
t.Error("the byte rate rule comes after established")
}
if now := strings.Index(fwd, "blocked now"); now < 0 || now > est {
t.Error("the every-packet rule comes after established")
}
// The trusted masquerade has no IPv6 part: masquerading the IPv6 LAN
// isn't wanted (its sources are global).
if strings.Contains(text, "ip6 saddr @trusted_v6 counter masquerade") {