Carry IPv4 routes over IPv6 sessions with IPv6 next hops (RFC 8950)

For a link that has only IPv6 addresses.

- The Extended Next Hop capability is offered on every session over IPv6
  whose families include IPv4 unicast, and used if the peer offers it too.
  Nothing to configure.
- On such a session our IPv4 routes go out in MP_REACH_NLRI with the
  session's IPv6 address as next hop, and are withdrawn in
  MP_UNREACH_NLRI. Without the agreement they are not sent, as before.
- IPv4 routes are read with an IPv6 next hop, global or global with
  link-local.
- The kernel installer resolves an IPv4 route's IPv6 next hop like any
  other and installs it: by way of an IPv6 nexthop object, or with RTA_VIA
  where routes carry their own gateway.

Tested against a real kernel in both modes, with a link-local next hop
too, and in the lab against FRR and BIRD: the new `v6only` phase takes
the IPv4 addresses off the exchange LAN, runs one IPv6 session with each
router for both families, and pings IPv4 across.

Sessions between link-local addresses are not supported yet.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ from <select id="lookup-peer"><option value="">any peer</option></select>
<td><span class="${STATE_CLASS[p.state] || ''}">${esc(p.state)}</span></td><td>${up ? (p.direction === 'outbound' ? 'us' : 'peer') : DASH}</td>
<td class="mono">${up ? esc(p.local_addr) : DASH}</td><td>${up ? fmtTime(p.established_at_unix) : DASH}</td>
<td>${up ? age(p.established_at_unix) : DASH}</td><td>${up ? (p.four_octet_asn ? 'yes' : 'no') : DASH}</td>
<td>${up ? esc((p.address_families || []).join(', ')) + addPath(p) : DASH}</td>
<td>${up ? esc((p.address_families || []).join(', ')) + addPath(p) + (p.extended_next_hop ? ' &middot; IPv4 with IPv6 next hops' : '') : DASH}</td>
<td>${up ? p.routes : DASH}</td>
<td>${up ? (p.rejected_routes ? `<a class="bad" href="#refused">${p.rejected_routes}</a>` : 0) + (p.held_routes ? ` <span class="dim" title="Refused as RPKI or ASPA invalid and kept aside, to be taken if that changes">(${p.held_routes} held)</span>` : '') : DASH}</td><td>${detail}</td></tr>`;
}).join(''));