Use pyroute2 for linuxbridge EVPN VXLAN driver

Bug #1719593 reported by Thomas Morin
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Bug Description

Currently the linuxbridge EVPN VXLAN driver relies on CLI to create VXLAN interfaces ("ip link ...") and add bridge forwarding entries ("bridge fdb ...").

It would be much more efficient to rely on pyroute2 instead, similarly as how the linux IPVPN driver is written [1].

[1] https://github.com/openstack/networking-bagpipe/blob/master/networking_bagpipe/bagpipe_bgp/vpn/ipvpn/mpls_linux_dataplane.py

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