Recently we had faced a problem in a Drupal site after installing Memcached on a server with CentOS and having csf as firewall. Memcache is a process which is always running in memory and the server is configured to send automated mails regarding this process. So we need to exclude this process from csf. If you are facing the same problem in your Drupal site and want to know how to whitelist a process in csf, then read on to get the solution
CentOS
When you you wish to run multiple services bound to different IPs possibly under different subnets from a single machine the simple way is to create multiple virtual adapters tied to a single physical card. The following instructions are for CentOS but should also work for RedHat and Fedora.
You will require su/sudo access for the following steps