A review is given of the shot-noise properties of metallic, diffusive
conductors. The shot noise is one third of the Poisson noise, due to the
bimodal distribution of transmission eigenvalues. The same result can be
obtained from a semiclassical calculation. Starting from Oseledec's theorem it
is shown that the bimodal distribution is required by Ohm's law.Comment: 9 pages, LaTeX, including 2 figure
