status: a session's TCP connection as the kernel sees it; a route in full

When a session advertised a full table to a route collector at two
thousand routes a second, nothing on the status page said whether the
daemon or the peer set that pace. The answer is in the kernel: the
peer's receive window, the queues, and how long the connection was held
up by the window or by the send buffer, which `ss -ti` shows.

This change asks the kernel the same way `ss` does, over the socket
diagnostics netlink family (`NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG`, `SOCK_DIAG_BY_FAMILY`
with the connection's addresses and ports), and reads `tcp_info` and
the congestion control name from the answer. No external program is
run and no unsafe code is needed: the request and the answer are byte
layouts of the kernel's ABI, read field by field, with fields an older
kernel does not send left at zero. A socket on a link-local address is
found by its interface, which the request names.

* `bgp_fib::sockdiag`: the request, the parser, `TcpConnection`, and
  `tcp_connection(local, peer)`; `Ok(None)` where there is no such
  connection or the system is not Linux.
* `GET /api/tcp?peer=ADDRESS` in the HTTP API: the connection of the
  session with that peer, with times in milliseconds, the two windows
  named by what they allow, and the held-up times also as shares of the
  busy time.
* The status page: a "tcp" link on each established session, which
  expands a row below it with the figures, re-asked on every refresh
  while open. The group rows' span is corrected for the "sent" column.

Also on the status page: the attributes of a received route that have
no column of their own were badges with their value in a tooltip, which
is hard to read. Clicking the attrs cell now expands a row under the
route with every attribute by its name (ORIGIN, AS_PATH, NEXT_HOP, MED,
LOCAL_PREF, COMMUNITIES, LARGE_COMMUNITIES, AGGREGATOR and the rest),
the path identifier, the selection rank and the RPKI and ASPA states;
the badges stay. Both expansions use the terms of `ss` and the RFCs
rather than sentences.

Documentation: the endpoint in the HTTP API reference, and the link and
the expansion in the monitoring guide.

Testing: unit tests of the request and of the parser on a reply built
field by field, and of a "no such socket" and a refused answer; a
Linux-only test that asks the kernel about a loopback connection of the
test's own and about one that does not exist; the lab's basics phase
checks the endpoint for the FRR session; the page was checked by hand
against the daemon in the Linux VM.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -489,6 +489,12 @@ phase_basics() {
in_ns dut ping -q -c 2 -W 2 -I 2001:db8:1::1 2001:db8:2::1 >/dev/null || fail "no IPv6 ping to FRR's lan"
in_ns dut ping -q -c 2 -W 2 -I 2001:db8:1::1 2001:db8:3::1 >/dev/null || fail "no IPv6 ping to BIRD's lan"
ok "packets get through to both, over IPv4 and IPv6"
# The kernel's view of a session's connection, as the page asks for it.
frr4_addr=$(api /api/peers | jq -r '.[] | select(.name == "frr4") | .peer_addr')
api "/api/tcp?peer=$frr4_addr" | jq -e '.available and .connection.state == "established" and .connection.mss > 0' >/dev/null \
|| fail "no TCP details for frr4: $(api "/api/tcp?peer=$frr4_addr")"
ok "the kernel tells of a session's TCP connection"
}
# RFC 9234: each end says what it is to the other, and routes are marked