viewstate - datagrid and intermittent errors.....help

[deevoy]

Hi-
I'm developing a asp.net web application and everything has proven fine
on the dev and acceptance environment.
We've moved the code up to our windows server 2003 prod environment and
get the following intermittent error when browsing the web page through
a client browser (the action causing this is paging though a datagrid-
although it randomly errors, rather than erroring all the time):
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Invalid character in a Base-64 string
at System.Convert.FromBase64String(String s) at
System.Web.UI.LosFormatter.Deserialize(String input) at
System.Web.UI.Page.LoadPageStateFromPersistenceMedium()
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However if I run the application on the server itself I never get this
intermittent error. Whilst it is a load balanced environment I've
directed (within my host file) the browser to hit a specific server.
Also for good measure I've set the following:
enableViewStateMac="false"
within the page in question.

Does anyone have any ideas on what is causing this. The intermittent
nature makes it all the more confusing.

many thanks

devo

 

[carion1]

In the NLB setup make sure you are using class c affinity.

 

[deevoy]

many thanks for the reply Derek- I was hoping you could expand a little
on your potential solution.

thanks

devo