BGP: Fix the setting of link-local nexthops in some situations

This patch addresses three main issues:
a. Passing along the global IPv6 nexthop received from the EBGP peer to
IBGP peers but setting the link-local IPv6 nexthop to ourselves when
advertising EBGP-learnt routes to IBGP peers (in the absence of outbound
route-map or other overrides). The fix is to not send a link-local IPv6
nexthop in this case.

b. Passing along the link-local IPv6 nexthop received from one peer to
another peer which is (or may be) on a different subnet. This violates the
semantics of link-local IPv6 address. The fix is to set the nexthop to
ourselves in the situation where the nexthop normally has to be passed
but is a link-local IPv6 address.

c. Different behavior wrt nexthop advertisement for BGP unnumbered peering
if it is setup using link-local IPv6 address versus IPv4 /30 or /31. The
fix is to make the behavior consistent as long as the interface config is
the same in both cases.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Venkatraman <vivek@cumulusnetworks.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Walton <dwalton@cumulusnetworks.com>

Ticket: CM-7846, CM-8043
Reviewed By: CCR-3749
Testing Done: Manual testing, bgpsmoke (on 2.5-br)

Note: Imported from 2.5-br patch bgpd-fix-link-local-nexthop-setting.patch

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