You could, but for a legit purpose such a logging traffic on a network, doing a tap like this is not the best way to go. Use a switch with a SPAN port, or alter

You could, but for a legit purpose such a logging traffic on a network, doing a tap like this is not the best way to go. Use a switch with a SPAN port, or alternatively there are commercial taps (for example from NetOptics) that does exactly what you want... just in a much nicer/cleaner/proper way.