Oh... I see.
In that case, I'd highly recommend that you get an ethernet adapter. If you have a USB-C iPad, you should be able to use a typical USB-C to Ethernet adapter. If it's lightning based, you'll need a Lighting to USB and then a USB to ethernet adapter.
If your device does have two radios, you can setup a management network and assign that to one of the radios and you should be good as long as you never use that radio for the uplink... but if you only have one radio, things become much harder with respect to guaranteeing that htings stay working..
That said, you should certainly install travelmate -- this is a package developed specifically for this type of scenario.