diff --git a/batch.go b/batch.go
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index 02d86bc7..00000000
--- a/batch.go
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@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-package nebula
-
-import "net/netip"
-
-// sendBatchCap is the maximum number of encrypted packets accumulated before a
-// flush is forced. TSO superpackets segment to at most ~45 packets on
-// reasonable MTUs, so 128 leaves headroom without bloating the backing
-// allocation.
-const sendBatchCap = 128
-
-// sendBatch accumulates encrypted UDP packets for a single sendmmsg flush.
-// One sendBatch is owned by each listenIn goroutine; no locking is needed.
-// The backing storage holds up to batchCap packets of slotCap bytes each;
-// bufs and dsts are parallel slices of committed slots.
-type sendBatch struct {
-	bufs     [][]byte
-	dsts     []netip.AddrPort
-	backing  []byte
-	slotCap  int
-	batchCap int
-	nextSlot int
-}
-
-func newSendBatch(batchCap, slotCap int) *sendBatch {
-	return &sendBatch{
-		bufs:     make([][]byte, 0, batchCap),
-		dsts:     make([]netip.AddrPort, 0, batchCap),
-		backing:  make([]byte, batchCap*slotCap),
-		slotCap:  slotCap,
-		batchCap: batchCap,
-	}
-}
-
-// Next returns a zero-length slice with slotCap capacity over the next unused
-// slot's backing bytes. The caller writes into the returned slice and then
-// calls Commit with the final length and destination. Next returns nil when
-// the batch is full.
-func (b *sendBatch) Next() []byte {
-	if b.nextSlot >= b.batchCap {
-		return nil
-	}
-	start := b.nextSlot * b.slotCap
-	return b.backing[start : start : start+b.slotCap]
-}
-
-// Commit records the slot just returned by Next as a packet of length n
-// destined for dst.
-func (b *sendBatch) Commit(n int, dst netip.AddrPort) {
-	start := b.nextSlot * b.slotCap
-	b.bufs = append(b.bufs, b.backing[start:start+n])
-	b.dsts = append(b.dsts, dst)
-	b.nextSlot++
-}
-
-// Reset clears committed slots; backing storage is retained for reuse.
-func (b *sendBatch) Reset() {
-	b.bufs = b.bufs[:0]
-	b.dsts = b.dsts[:0]
-	b.nextSlot = 0
-}
-
-// Len returns the number of committed packets.
-func (b *sendBatch) Len() int {
-	return len(b.bufs)
-}
-
-// Cap returns the maximum number of slots in the batch.
-func (b *sendBatch) Cap() int {
-	return b.batchCap
-}
diff --git a/batch_test.go b/batch_test.go
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index ee72c63e..00000000
--- a/batch_test.go
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@@ -1,69 +0,0 @@
-package nebula
-
-import (
-	"net/netip"
-	"testing"
-)
-
-func TestSendBatchBookkeeping(t *testing.T) {
-	b := newSendBatch(4, 32)
-	if b.Len() != 0 || b.Cap() != 4 {
-		t.Fatalf("fresh batch: len=%d cap=%d", b.Len(), b.Cap())
-	}
-
-	ap := netip.MustParseAddrPort("10.0.0.1:4242")
-	for i := 0; i < 4; i++ {
-		slot := b.Next()
-		if slot == nil {
-			t.Fatalf("slot %d: Next returned nil before cap", i)
-		}
-		if cap(slot) != 32 || len(slot) != 0 {
-			t.Fatalf("slot %d: got len=%d cap=%d want len=0 cap=32", i, len(slot), cap(slot))
-		}
-		// Write a marker byte.
-		slot = append(slot, byte(i), byte(i+1), byte(i+2))
-		b.Commit(len(slot), ap)
-	}
-	if b.Next() != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("Next should return nil when full")
-	}
-	if b.Len() != 4 {
-		t.Fatalf("Len=%d want 4", b.Len())
-	}
-	for i, buf := range b.bufs {
-		if len(buf) != 3 || buf[0] != byte(i) {
-			t.Errorf("buf %d: %x", i, buf)
-		}
-		if b.dsts[i] != ap {
-			t.Errorf("dst %d: got %v want %v", i, b.dsts[i], ap)
-		}
-	}
-
-	// Reset returns empty and Next works again.
-	b.Reset()
-	if b.Len() != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("after Reset Len=%d want 0", b.Len())
-	}
-	slot := b.Next()
-	if slot == nil || cap(slot) != 32 {
-		t.Fatalf("after Reset Next nil or wrong cap: %v cap=%d", slot == nil, cap(slot))
-	}
-}
-
-func TestSendBatchSlotsDoNotOverlap(t *testing.T) {
-	b := newSendBatch(3, 8)
-	ap := netip.MustParseAddrPort("10.0.0.1:80")
-
-	// Fill three slots, each with its own sentinel byte.
-	for i := 0; i < 3; i++ {
-		s := b.Next()
-		s = append(s, byte(0xA0+i), byte(0xB0+i))
-		b.Commit(len(s), ap)
-	}
-
-	for i, buf := range b.bufs {
-		if buf[0] != byte(0xA0+i) || buf[1] != byte(0xB0+i) {
-			t.Errorf("slot %d corrupted: %x", i, buf)
-		}
-	}
-}