How can I get the current network interface throughput statistics on Linux/UNIX? [closed]

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Tools such as MRTG provide network throughput / bandwidth graphs for the current network utilisation on specific interfaces, such as eth0. How can I return that information at the command line on Linux/UNIX?

Preferably this would be without installing anything other than what is available on the system as standard.

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You can parse the output of ifconfig

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