Zone matrix: what the rules do between zones

internal/matrix walks each pair's rules in order, as nftables would, for
new connections: zone → zone (forward), zone → the firewall (input) and
back (output), with the built-ins that act on new connections. A rule
for the whole pair decides it; one for part of its traffic (addresses,
services, times, rates, a quota) is an exception; the rest falls to the
policy. Rules whose addresses all lie in networks connected to other
zones are left out of a pair. GET /matrix (with ?changeset, pending
changes), hc matrix [FROM TO], and a Matrix page whose cells open their
rules.

e2e: 166 checks, among them the matrix of the maintainer's imported
ruleset.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| `quotas` | what each rule's quota used (each address's, for per-address quotas), and when it resets |
| `log [-f] [--search TEXT] [--limit N]` | the packets logged by rules and policies ([operations.md](operations.md#the-log)) |
| `connections [--search TEXT] [--limit N]`, `connections close --search TEXT [-y]` | tracked connections; closing makes the rules check them again ([operations.md](operations.md#connections)) |
| `matrix [FROM TO]` | what the rules do to new connections between zones; with FROM and TO, that pair's rules in order ([rules.md](rules.md#the-zone-matrix)) |
| `trace [--address A] [--port N] [--protocol P] [--seconds S]` | follow packets through every table's rules ([operations.md](operations.md#tracing)) |
### zone, set, service