Using Airport Base Station as Extender

Hello,
I am trying to set up an ABS as an extender for the wireless network in my house. If I have Mac Address filtering set on my original network will that carry over to the extension or do I have to put all of the Mac Address on the original network into the second base station? If I do, is there a way to transfer them from one Airport to another?
Thanks.

If I have Mac Address filtering set on my original network will that carry over to the extension
No
do I have to put all of the Mac Address on the original network into the second base station?
Yes
If I do, is there a way to transfer them from one Airport to another?
No   But a few users have reported that they have been able to "export" the settings from their main router and "import" them into the new router to be set up....while others report that these particular settings are not imported when they try this.

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