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Transparent Routing

Transparent routing allows a router DSA to process LDAP requests and responses without requiring the controlling schema. This is useful if the router DSA is being used to link LDAP clients to an LDAP server, or the clients and server have schema that are not known by the router DSA. Transparent routing works with LDAP clients only.

By default, transparent routing is set to false.  Transparent routing can be set on a router, as shown in the following diagram

A client contacts a router DSA, which contacts two LDAP-only servers