Frontend flush-on-down policy; v0.9.3

Adds a per-frontend flush-on-down flag (default true) that causes
maglevd to set is_flush=true on lb_as_set_weight when a backend
transitions to StateDown, tearing down existing flows pinned to
the dead AS instead of just draining them. rise/fall debouncing
in the health checker already absorbs single-probe flaps, so a
fall-counted down is almost always a real outage — and during a
real outage the client-visible "connection refused" oscillation
window (where VPP keeps steering existing flows at a dead AS
until retry) is a reliability regression worth closing by default.
Operators who want the pre-flag drain-only behaviour can set
flush-on-down: false per frontend.

BackendEffectiveWeight's truth table grows one axis: StateDown
now returns (0, flushOnDown); StateDisabled still unconditionally
flushes; StateUnknown / StatePaused still never flush. The unit
test pins all four combinations.

The flag surfaces in the gRPC FrontendInfo message and in
`maglevc show frontend <name>` right next to src-ip-sticky.
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@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ FRONTEND_WEB_SRC := $(shell find cmd/frontend/web/src -type f 2>/dev/null) \
FRONTEND_WEB_DIST := cmd/frontend/web/dist/index.html
NATIVE_ARCH := $(shell go env GOARCH)
VERSION := 0.9.2
VERSION := 0.9.3
COMMIT_HASH := $(shell git rev-parse --short HEAD 2>/dev/null || echo unknown)
DATE := $(shell date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)
LDFLAGS := -X '$(MODULE)/cmd.version=$(VERSION)' \