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Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#30118: test: improve robustness of connect_nodes()
6629d1d0f8285d1bf2d87341a856abe903f26c13 test: improve robustness of connect_nodes() (furszy)

Pull request description:

  Decoupled from #27837 because this can help other too, found it investigating a CI failure https://cirrus-ci.com/task/5805115213348864?logs=ci#L3200.

  The `connect_nodes` function in the test framework relies on a stable number of peer
  connections to verify that the new connection between the nodes is successfully established.
  This approach is fragile, as any of the peers involved in the process can drop, lose, or
  create a connection at any step, causing subsequent `wait_until` checks to stall indefinitely
  even when the peers in question were connected successfully.

  This commit improves the situation by using the nodes' subversion and the connection
  direction (inbound/outbound) to identify the exact peer connection and perform the
  checks exclusively on it.

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