I am using both 2.5 and 2.6 also and I get the same results.
TLS options are duplicated in the slapd.conf file.
slapd.conf on proxy server: [...] # TLS TLSCACertificateFile /etc/openldap/certs/ca-bundle.crt TLSCertificateFile /etc/openldap/certs/server.crt TLSCertificateKeyFile /etc/openldap/certs/server.key TLSCipherSuite HIGH TLSVerifyClient demand
Database ldap suffix dc=test,dc=com uri ldaps://mytest.com:636 idassert-bind mode=self bindmethod=sasl saslmech=EXTERNAL tls_cert=/etc/openldap/certs/server.crt tls_key=/etc/openldap/certs/server.key tls_cacert=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt tls_cacertdir=/etc/ssl/certs tls_crlcheck=none tls_reqcert=allow [...]